naive as in 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"

Synonyms

• naifmarked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; a naive or inexperienced person

naive as in of or created by one without formal training

• "simple or naive in style"
• "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"

Synonyms

• primitivebelonging to an early stage of technical development; little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; of or created by one without formal training; a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization ; a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived ; a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

naive as in inexperienced

naive as in lacking information or instruction

• "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"

Synonyms

• uninstructedlacking information or instruction
• unenlightenednot enlightened; lacking information or instruction

naive as in not initiated

• "deficient in relevant experience"
• "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"
• "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"

Synonyms

• uninitiatenot initiated; people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
• uninitiatednot initiated