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naive
adjective as in childlike, trusting
Weak matches
aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green, guileless, gullible, harmless, impulsive, ingenuous, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple-minded, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin
Example Sentences
A naive and wealthy man named Simon Aron falls under the spell of Mocata, the leader of a Satanic society active in London and southern England.
“It’s like hitting a bullet with a bullet,” someone says, crushing the naive notion of an impregnable “nuclear defense.”
For a dozen years and more they've been belittled by Celtic and, as much as Martin's plea for patience was understandable, it was also naive.
That doesn’t mean she was a pushover or naive; she took names and kept receipts of those who had done her wrong.
Nato's secretary general Mark Rutte said: "We are a defensive alliance, yes, but we are not naive, so we see what is happening."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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