Synonyms: naive, uninitiate, uninitiated
Definition: not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
Usage: it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes; he took part in the experiment as a naive subject
Similar words: inexperienced, inexperient
Definition: lacking practical experience or training
Synonyms: unenlightened, uninstructed, naive
Definition: lacking information or instruction
Usage: lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
Similar words: uninformed
Definition: not informed; lacking in knowledge or information
Usage: the uninformed public
Synonyms: naive
Definition: inexperienced
Similar words: unconditioned, unlearned, innate
Definition: not established by conditioning or learning
Usage: an unconditioned reflex
Definition: of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
Usage: primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
Similar words: untrained
Definition: not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training
Usage: an untrained voice; untrained troops; young minds untrained in the habit of concentration
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