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1. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
   "a teenager's naif ignorance of life";
   - naive, naïve, naïf

1. A naive or inexperienced person
   - naïf

Derived forms: naifs, naïfs

See also: childlike, credulous, dewy-eyed, fleeceable, green, gullible, ingenuous, innocent, round-eyed, simple, simple-minded, simplistic, uninformed, unsophisticated, unworldly, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed

Type of: inexperienced person, innocent

Antonym: sophisticated

Encyclopedia: Naif