naive
nahy eev
- a marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
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 - s of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- s inexperienced
- s lacking information or instruction
- s not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
he took part in the experiment as a naive subject
- Shiva's many detractors call her naive, pointing out that chemical fertilizers, pesticides and genetic engineering rescued India from its eternal cycles of famine and huge debts .
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a President unlike any other Iran has known: belligerent, naive, at once a fundamentalist and nationalist, and a dark genius at mobilizing Iranian public .
- At this point Dean Kamen is used to being called naive.