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Synonyms and Antonyms of naive
- 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
critical, cynical, doubting, incredulous, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unconvinced
careful, cautious, guarded, leery (also leary), wary, watchful
down-to-earth, hardheaded, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober
- The young girl gave honest and naive answers to the social worker's probing questions.
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
exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary
on the level
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
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
- We get piles of junk mail because you are naive enough to keep entering these dumb contests.
easy, exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, trusting, unwary, wide-eyed
Synonym Discussion of naive
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- her unaffected, natural manner
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- the ingenuous enthusiasm of children
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- politically naive
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- unsophisticated adolescents
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- artless charm
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