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naive
Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement

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{s} lacking worldly wisdom, unsuspecting, gullible; childish, innocent, simple, unsophisticated
Primitive or popular, in the sense given those terms of an ability to communicate in time and space more readily than other types of literature
inexperienced The term is used to describe an individual who has never taken a certain drug or class of drugs (e g , AZT-naive, antiretroviral-naive), or to refer to an undifferentiated immune system cell
lacking sophistication marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances
If you describe someone as naive, you think they lack experience and so expect things to be easy or people to be honest or kind. It's naive to think that teachers are always tolerant naive idealists Their view was that he had been politically naive. = unrealistic + naively na·ive·ly naively applying Western solutions to Eastern problems I thought, naively, that this would be a nine-to-five job. + naivety na·ive·ty I was alarmed by his naivety and ignorance of international affairs. not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen innocent (naïve, feminine of naïf, from nativus; NATIVE)
lacking sophistication
lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"
Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"
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