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Synonyms & Antonyms of naive
1
lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment
- a first-time buyer who was so naive that he believed the salesman's spiel and paid good money for the rusty and broken-down car
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- down-to-earth,
- hardheaded,
- pragmatic
- (also pragmatical),
- realistic,
- sober
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2
free from any intent to deceive or impress others
- the young girl gave honest and naive answers to the social worker's probing questions
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- childlike,
- dewy-eyed,
- gee-whiz,
- impressionable,
- inexperienced,
- malleable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- simpleminded,
- unsophisticated,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
- candid,
- direct,
- frank,
- free,
- free-spoken,
- open,
- openhearted,
- plain,
- plainspoken,
- single-minded,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- unguarded
- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable),
- susceptible,
- unwary
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- affected,
- artful,
- artificial,
- assuming,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- dissimulating,
- fake,
- false,
- guileful,
- insincere,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pretentious
3
readily taken advantage of
- we get piles of junk mail because you are naive enough to keep entering these dumb contests
Synonyms for naive
- dewy-eyed,
- easy,
- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable),
- susceptible,
- trusting,
- unwary,
- wide-eyed
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The first known use of naive was in 1614
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