Synonyms: naif
Definition: a naive or inexperienced person
Similar words: inexperienced person, innocent
Definition: a person who lacks knowledge of evil
Definition: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
Usage: a teenager's naive ignorance of life; the naive assumption that things can only get better; this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances
Similar words: dewy-eyed, simple, round-eyed, wide-eyed, childlike
Definition: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
Usage: childlike trust; dewy-eyed innocence; listened in round-eyed wonder
Similar words: credulous
Definition: showing a lack of judgment or experience
Usage: so credulous he believes everything he reads
Similar words: fleeceable, green, gullible
Definition: naive and easily deceived or tricked
Usage: at that early age she had been gullible and in love
Similar words: ingenuous, innocent
Definition: lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Usage: a child's innocent stare; his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it
Similar words: simple-minded
Definition: lacking subtlety and insight
Usage: a simple-minded argument
Similar words: unsophisticated, unworldly
Definition: not wise in the ways of the world
Usage: either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver; this helplessly unworldly woman- Kate O'Brien