"Naive" synonyms

Lack of Experience/Worldliness:

• inexperienced
• unsophisticated
• unworldly
• green
• callow
• jejune
• ingenuous

Lack of Judgment/Gullibility:

• gullible
• credulous
• trusting
• unsuspecting
• easily deceived
• exploitable
• impressionable

Innocence/Simplicity:

• innocent
• childlike
• artless
• simple
• unaffected
• pure
• guileless

Negative Connotations (implying foolishness):

• foolish
• silly
• simpleminded
• unsuspecting
• easily fooled
• witless

Examples in Context:

• "She was naive to believe his promises." (Lack of judgment)
• "He had a childlike innocence about the world." (Innocence/Simplicity)
• "The inexperienced intern made a few mistakes." (Lack of experience)

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By Jerry Ramonyai