- having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous: She's so naive she believes everything she reads.He has a very naive attitude toward politics.
- having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
- having or marked by a simple, unaffectedly direct style reflecting little or no formal training or technique: valuable naive 19th-century American portrait paintings.
- not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.
- having or expressing innocence and credulity; ingenuous
- (as collective noun; preceded by the)
- artless or unsophisticated
- lacking developed powers of analysis, reasoning, or criticism
- another word for primitive (def. 5)
- a person who is naive, esp in artistic style
