naive

1. 1

   Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

   • I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive
2. 2

   Not having been exposed to something.

   • Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]
3. 3

   Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

   • By 1921 when Miró painted his key work, naive painting had been recognized by the avantgarde art world as a genre in its own right.
4. 4

   Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

   • We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.

syn. artless · callow · childlike · verdant · clueless · credulous · dewy-eyed · cute · fleeceable · foppotee · green · guileless

ant. affected · mature · nuanced · pretentious · sophisticated · wily · worldly

1. 1

   A naive person; a greenhorn.

   • As a seasoned woman—of nineteen—I felt it was my place to tell each of these naïves that such plans were easier made than followed.
   • In other words, they'd buy securities from these naives for 55 and sell them similar securities for 65. In plain English, they'd pay $550 per $1,000 bond and turn right around and sell them similar stuff for $650.