Naive

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  • adjective. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially.
  • adjective. Simple and guileless; artless.
  • adjective. Unsuspecting or credulous.
  • adjective. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment.
  • adjective. Not having experienced or been subjected to something, as.
  • adjective. Not previously subjected to experiments.
  • adjective. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug.
  • noun. One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Simple; unsophisticated; ingenuous; artless.
  • In philosophy, unreflective; uncritical.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank
  • adjective. Having a lack of knowledge, judgment, or experience; especially, lacking sophistication in judging the motives of others; credulous.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement.
  • adjective. Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. lacking information or instruction
  • adjective. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
  • adjective. inexperienced
  • adjective. not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
  • adjective. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
  • Word Usage
    "Once it's here, it's spreading like a virus that's going into what we call a naive population."
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