1. A naive or inexperienced person
   "The naif was easily fooled by the con artist's scheme";
   - naïf

1. Innocent and trusting; showing lack of worldly experience
   "a teenager's naif ignorance of life";
   - naive, naïve, naïf

Derived forms: naifs, naïfs

See also: childlike, credulous, dewy-eyed, fleeceable [informal], green, gullible, ingenuous, innocent, round-eyed, simple, simple-minded, simplistic, uninformed, unsophisticated, unworldly, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed

Type of: innocent

Antonym: sophisticated

Encyclopedia: Naif