marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; a teenagers 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
[ Syn: naif ]
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
[ Syn: primitive ]
inexperienced
lacking information or instruction; lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
[ Syn: uninstructed , unenlightened ]
not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes; he took part in the experiment as a naive subject
[ Syn: uninitiate , uninitiated ]