1. Innocent and trusting; showing lack of worldly experience
   "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life";
   - naif, naïve, naïf
    
2. Lacking experience in a particular field or activity
   "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject";
   - uninitiate, uninitiated, naïve
    
3. Lacking knowledge in a particular field
   "lamentably naive as to the laws";
   - uninstructed, unenlightened, naïve
    
4. (fine arts) of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
   "naive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colourful and striking";
   - primitive, naïve
    
5. (computing) using a straightforward, unsophisticated approach
   "this naive search algorithm scales very badly";
   - naïve

Derived forms: naivest, naiver

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

Encyclopedia: Naive, Super