innocent

Synonyms

artless, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious;

Antonyms

affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious;

Near Antonyms

critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary;

cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise;

civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined;

crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-faced;

arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wily;

flattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuous;

Related Words

childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed;

spontaneous, unforced, unstudied;

candid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguarded;

trustful, trusting;

exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary;

Phrases

on the level;

Synonyms

angel, dove, lamb, sheep;

Antonyms

wolf;

Near Antonyms

bully, roughneck, rowdy, tough;

beast, boor, cad, churl, clown, creep, cretin, cur, heel, jerk, joker, louse, lout, slob;

shark, skunk, snake, stinker;

devil, knave, miscreant, no-good, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, rogue, scalawag (or scallywag), scamp, scoundrel, varlet, villain;

Related Words

babe, colt, cub, fledgling, greenhorn, ingenue (or ingénue), naïf (or naif), newbie, tenderfoot, virgin;

cherub, saint;

mollycoddle, sissy, softy (or softie), weakling, wimp;

dupe, pigeon, sap, sucker;