| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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naive or naïve also naif or naïf |
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| NOUN: | A guileless, unsophisticated person: babe, child, ingénue, innocent. Idioms: babe in the woods. See KNOWLEDGE. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Free from guile, cunning, or deceit: artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, natural, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly. See HONEST. 2. Easily imposed on or tricked: credulous, dupable, easy, exploitable, gullible, susceptible. See WISE.
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