Word "NAIVE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
Synonyms:
naif
Examples:
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

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
lacking information or instruction
Synonyms:
unenlightened, uninstructed

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
Synonyms:
primitive

Crossword Clues for NAIVE

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Unworldly, inexperienced (5)
Childlike, trusting (5)
Inexperienced, unworldly (5)
Ingenuous (5) Puzzler 07 Apr 2024
"You had me several years ago when I was still quite _ _ _ _ _", from Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" (5)
Returning by way of Northeast Passage is simple
Innocent one enters part of church (5)
Ingenuous, innocent (5)
Ingenuous(5)
Green? Might be a vine
Innocently clueless New York Times Mini 14 Mar 2024
Trusting to a fault LA Times Daily 12 Mar 2024
Innocent one in church body (5)
Green local removing latest sign of pollutant (5)
I've an order that's simple (5)
Green one installed in part of church (5)
One caught in part of church, being inexperienced (5) Puzzler Cryptic 26 Feb 2024
It is no sophisticated painting style (5)
Ingenuous, artless (5)
Wet behind the ears Wall Street Journal 22 Feb 2024
Innocent, gullible
Easily taken in Mirror Tea Time 16 Feb 2024
Artless one in the main aisle (5)
Unfledged Newsday 10 Feb 2024
Far from worldly Universal 05 Feb 2024
*Easily fooled
First person in part of church lacking in guile? (5)
Point to Ivan as being artless
Inexperienced Mirror Quick 13 Jan 2024
A vine turned green Mirror Cryptic 13 Jan 2024
Artless or ingenuous (5)
Part of church accepting one is innocent The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Jan 2024
Unworldly, green The Times Concise 20 Dec 2023
Gullible The Guardian Speedy 17 Dec 2023
Hardly worldly Wall Street Journal 16 Dec 2023
Unsuspecting Commuter 12 Dec 2023
Gullible Commuter 07 Dec 2023
Foolishly simple Mirror Classic 06 Dec 2023
One stuck in the main part of a church is wide-eyed (5)
A vine somehow turned green
Innocent; a vein (anag.) (5)
Too trusting Commuter 30 Nov 2023
Point to Ivan the artless
Innocent The Telegraph Quick 23 Nov 2023
Easily fooled Wall Street Journal 08 Nov 2023
Outrageously vain English wet behind ears The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2023
Unsophisticated The Sun Two Speed 05 Nov 2023
Upsetting competition for Perrier is not wise The Times Cryptic 03 Nov 2023
None too worldly LA Times Daily 01 Nov 2023
Unsophisticated The Sun Two Speed 28 Oct 2023
Innocent one in place for congregation The Sun Two Speed 28 Oct 2023
Without guile Newsday 27 Oct 2023
Easily deceived Newsday 23 Oct 2023
Easy to take in water? It gets knocked back The Times Cryptic 20 Oct 2023
Green New York Times 11 Oct 2023
Easy to fool, say (anagram of "naevi")
Gullible or easily fooled, say
Wet behind the ears The Telegraph Quick 13 Aug 2023
Simple — water's receding The Guardian Cryptic 19 Jul 2023
Innocent the First dividing part of church The Guardian Cryptic 10 Jul 2023
Guileless unconfined weirdo making a comeback The Guardian Cryptic 30 Jun 2023
Easy to trick Wall Street Journal 16 Jun 2023
Easily duped LA Times Daily 30 May 2023
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 05 May 2023
Gullible The Telegraph Quick 04 May 2023
Guileless The Guardian Quick 19 Apr 2023
Unsophisticated LA Times Daily 12 Apr 2023
Too trusting Universal 31 Mar 2023
Foolable New York Times 30 Mar 2023
Overly trusting Newsday 28 Mar 2023
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 16 Mar 2023
Easily fooled Newsday 12 Mar 2023
Innocent and gullible
Dotty character entering part of church is overtrusting The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Dec 2022
Innocent The Telegraph Quick 04 Dec 2022
Unsophisticated The Guardian Speedy 20 Nov 2022
Easily duped Premier Sunday 13 Nov 2022
Credulous Newsday 11 Nov 2022
Innocent and gullible
Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses both produced ____ art The Times Specialist Sunday 04 Sep 2022
Innocent The Telegraph Quick 01 Sep 2022
Innocent I has divided part of church The Times Cryptic 30 Aug 2022
Gullible Universal 30 Aug 2022
Guileless Premier Sunday 21 Aug 2022
Trusting to a fault Wall Street Journal 10 Aug 2022
Simple to hide one in part of church
Innocent The Telegraph Quick 21 Jul 2022
Born yesterday?
Easily deceived Newsday 22 Jun 2022
Unwise to the ways of the world New York Times 21 Jun 2022
Too trusting Newsday 15 Jun 2022
Blocking passage in church, one wet behind ears The Times Cryptic 07 Jun 2022
Gullible individual’s initiation in church body The Times Cryptic 26 May 2022
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 21 May 2022
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 12 May 2022
Too trusting Newsday 09 May 2022
Frank and Jack, heading off around one The Times Cryptic 15 Apr 2022
Too trusting Newsday 10 Apr 2022
Artless Thomas Joseph 28 Mar 2022
Inexperienced in the ways of the world The Guardian Quick 26 Mar 2022
Born yesterday, so to speak Wall Street Journal 26 Mar 2022
Simple or guileless Irish Times Simplex 21 Mar 2022
Lacking experience The Times Concise 05 Mar 2022
Easy to con Universal 27 Feb 2022
Easily played LA Times Daily 13 Feb 2022
Easily played The Washington Post 13 Feb 2022
None too worldly LA Times Daily 16 Jan 2022
Far from worldly USA Today 08 Jan 2022
Innocent
Gullible Universal 30 Dec 2021
Innocent naked deviant lying around
Simple and guileless The Guardian Quick 20 Dec 2021
Innocent sort
Gullible USA Today 30 Oct 2021
Showing an innocence one found in large part of church The Times Cryptic 19 Oct 2021
Easy to deceive USA Today 17 Oct 2021
Too trusting Universal 12 Oct 2021
Unsophisticated church body touring India The Guardian Cryptic 08 Oct 2021
Too trusting Premier Sunday 03 Oct 2021
Unworldly Canadiana 27 Sep 2021
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 30 Aug 2021
Overly trusting USA Today 28 Aug 2021
Innocent, ingenuous The Telegraph Quick 25 Aug 2021
Unaffected or guileless Irish Times Simplex 15 Jul 2021
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 12 Jul 2021
Artless; gullible The Guardian Speedy 27 Jun 2021
Green; jejune The Guardian Speedy 20 Jun 2021
Green unit fills part of church
Born yesterday -- this person in main part of church The Telegraph Toughie 26 May 2021
Green where spring water comes from, seen travelling west
Gullible one taken in by rogue loses thousand
Innocent Methuselah framed by villain on tape
Innocent one in part of church The Sun Two Speed 01 Apr 2021
Easily conned The Sun Two Speed 01 Apr 2021
Innocent USA Today 25 Mar 2021
Unworldly LA Times Daily 14 Mar 2021
Unworldly The Washington Post 14 Mar 2021
Unsophisticated The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2021
Stupidly vain English easily tricked The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2021
Far from worldly USA Today 25 Feb 2021
Unsophisticated, strangely vain English The Sun Two Speed 23 Feb 2021
Gullible Canadiana 22 Feb 2021
Lacking experience The Times Concise 15 Feb 2021
Overly trusting Universal 04 Feb 2021
Neo-conservative withdraws to converse with one of The Greens Irish Times Crosaire 03 Feb 2021
Ingenuous The Washington Post 24 Jan 2021
Ingenuous LA Times Daily 24 Jan 2021
Guileless Wall Street Journal 26 Dec 2020
Unsophisticated LA Times Daily 24 Dec 2020
I will interrupt passage in church, being artless
Unsophisticated The Washington Post 24 Dec 2020
Local resident having no time to be green
Taking a turn, Welshman holds one born yesterday? The Telegraph Toughie 27 Nov 2020
Innocent Premier Sunday 08 Nov 2020
Hardly worldly Wall Street Journal 17 Oct 2020
Born yesterday, so to speak LA Times Daily 06 Oct 2020
Born yesterday, so to speak The Washington Post 06 Oct 2020
Too trusting Thomas Joseph 26 Sep 2020
Gullible Universal 11 Sep 2020
Gullible
Wet behind the ears, water running back
Like a gullible person
Well-known ____ artists include Henri Rousseau and Beryl Cook The Times Specialist Sunday 02 Aug 2020
None too worldly LA Times Daily 23 Jul 2020
None too worldly The Washington Post 23 Jul 2020
Born yesterday, figuratively Universal 28 Jun 2020
3   Simple one entering middle part of church
Part of church accepting one is innocent The Telegraph Cryptic 10 Jun 2020
Green paper assimilated by church body
Artless Thomas Joseph 21 May 2020
Natural theology originally dismissed as simplistic
Madly vain English easily conned The Sun Two Speed 05 May 2020
Easily misled Newsday 26 Apr 2020
Unsophisticated Newsday 08 Apr 2020
Silly vain English wet behind ears The Sun Two Speed 28 Mar 2020
Gullible
Ingenuous Thomas Joseph 23 Mar 2020
Dewy-eyed Premier Sunday 22 Mar 2020
Unsophisticated The Guardian Quick 18 Mar 2020
One who is easily deceived
Strangely vain English easily conned The Sun Two Speed 28 Feb 2020
Hardly worldly The Washington Post 24 Feb 2020
Hardly worldly LA Times Daily 24 Feb 2020
One easily fooled
Green water often bottled up
Too trusting Newsday 23 Dec 2019
Green water welling up The Telegraph Toughie 19 Dec 2019
Unaffected or guileless Irish Times Simplex 19 Dec 2019
Easily duped Universal 16 Dec 2019
Lacking street smarts Newsday 12 Dec 2019
Callow Jonesin 10 Dec 2019
Easily fooled LA Times Daily 09 Dec 2019
Easily fooled The Washington Post 09 Dec 2019
Like a babe in the woods USA Today 27 Nov 2019
Inexperienced or easily deceived
Unsophisticated The Telegraph Quick 29 Oct 2019
Easily fooled The Washington Post Sunday 20 Oct 2019
Easy to fool Newsday 12 Sep 2019
Easily duped USA Today 11 Sep 2019
Innocent The Telegraph Quick 08 Aug 2019
Easily taken in USA Today 25 Jul 2019
Innocent one protected in centre of church The Telegraph Cryptic 18 Jul 2019
Easily fooled New York Times 01 Jul 2019
Green sort of water sent back
Easily duped Newsday 09 Jun 2019
Easily fooled Newsday 07 Jun 2019
Ignorant of rising water in France
Innocent and gullible
Wet behind the ears USA Today 01 May 2019
Easily deceived LA Times Daily 15 Apr 2019
Easily deceived The Washington Post 15 Apr 2019
Trusting mother to have temperature taken
Green, inexperienced The Times Concise 09 Apr 2019
Green / Water from France New York Times 09 Apr 2019
Outrageously vain English wet behind ears The Sun Two Speed 07 Apr 2019
Innocent one in place for congregation The Sun Two Speed 30 Mar 2019
Overly unquestioning USA Today 18 Mar 2019
Time to leave local green
Innocent The Washington Post 13 Mar 2019
Innocent LA Times Daily 13 Mar 2019
Too trusting Family Time 25 Feb 2019
Way too trusting USA Today 28 Jan 2019
Far from experienced The Washington Post Sunday 27 Jan 2019
Believing that babies are delivered by storks, say The Washington Post Sunday 13 Jan 2019
Green water? That's revolutionary
Far from worldly
Hardly worldly
Innocent
Easily deceived
Easily fooled
Green / Water from France
Wet behind the ears
Way too trusting
Easily duped
Easily taken in
Overly unquestioning
Lacking experience one enters central part of church
Easy to fool USA Today 20 Dec 2018
Born yesterday, so to speak USA Today 28 Nov 2018
Easily deceived USA Today 13 Nov 2018
Trusting to a fault USA Today 12 Nov 2018
Not world-wise Universal 08 Nov 2018
Inexperienced The Telegraph Quick 28 Oct 2018
Ingenuous knight I embraced in greeting
Green water in France is on the up The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Oct 2018
Apt to believe anything USA Today 13 Aug 2018
Easily duped The Washington Post 24 Jul 2018
Easily duped LA Times Daily 24 Jul 2018
Innocent one in place for congregation
Wide-eyed LA Times Daily 30 Jun 2018
Wide-eyed The Washington Post 30 Jun 2018
Gullible
Unsophisticated Thomas Joseph 08 Jun 2018
Far from sophisticated Wall Street Journal 02 Jun 2018
Not worldly wise USA Today 24 May 2018
Too trusting USA Today 18 May 2018
Childlike Universal 03 May 2018
Ingenuous The Telegraph Quick 27 Apr 2018
Innocent
Green as grass Newsday 06 Apr 2018
Turning water green
Wide-eyed USA Today 19 Jan 2018
Artless The Sun Two Speed 16 Jan 2018
Innocent one found in part of church The Sun Two Speed 16 Jan 2018
Green inhabitant banning first of trucks The Telegraph Toughie 16 Jan 2018
Wet behind the ears, local taking time out
Far from sophisticated
Not world-wise
Wide-eyed
Childlike
Easily duped
Wide-eyed
Trusting to a fault
Too trusting
Not worldly wise
Easy to fool
Easily deceived
Born yesterday, so to speak
Apt to believe anything
Easily duped
Innocent approaching an early night, we hear?
Too trusting, don't insist on getting name for whiskey
Lacking sophistication The Telegraph Quick 13 Nov 2017
Naturally unsuspicious Newsday 10 Nov 2017
Innocent one hiding in part of church
Wide-eyed Wall Street Journal 18 Oct 2017
Far from worldly-wise USA Today 07 Oct 2017
Easy to pull a fast one on USA Today 30 Sep 2017
Easily led astray USA Today 11 Sep 2017
Green New York Times 10 Sep 2017
Too trusting of source of mineral water from South?
Born yesterday, so to speak New York Times 23 Aug 2017
Easily deceived Newsday 15 Jun 2017
Green mineral water makes a comeback
Simple in outlook The Telegraph Quick 28 Apr 2017
One in a section of church is ingenuous
I'm buried in part of church green
Innocent or not worldly enough Irish Times Simplex 14 Jan 2017
Unworldly Wall Street Journal 13 Jan 2017
Green water ebbing
Easily led astray
Far from worldly-wise
Born yesterday, so to speak
Green
Easy to pull a fast one on
Simple out-of-town aboriginal
Innocent or unsophisticated Irish Times Simplex 07 Dec 2016
Knowing little, one impressed by church body
Artless The Telegraph Quick 01 Nov 2016
Inexperienced, innocent The Times Concise 18 Oct 2016
Easily fooled Premier Sunday 11 Sep 2016
Gullible citizen ignoring Brexit's conclusion The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Aug 2016
Jejune The Guardian Speedy 07 Aug 2016
Easy to deceive Universal 27 Jul 2016
Cultivating a vine is simple
Simple upright piece in part of church
Overly trusting Newsday 04 May 2016
Trustingly innocent New York Times 18 Apr 2016
Sounds like Jack welcomes one for one of the Greens? Irish Times Crosaire 14 Apr 2016
Inexperienced Jonesin 15 Mar 2016
Trustingly innocent Universal 03 Mar 2016
Part of Chennai very green
Easily fooled USA Today 28 Feb 2016
One entering part of the church, innocent
Green bottled water makes a comeback
Green, so to speak Universal 13 Feb 2016
Easy to deceive
Green, so to speak
Gullible
Unsophisticated Universal 15 Dec 2015
Gullible Newsday 07 Dec 2015
Innocent one is found in part of the church The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Dec 2015
Artless Eugene Sheffer 14 Oct 2015
Young and inexperienced USA Today 23 Sep 2015
Simple part of church I should enter The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Aug 2015
Innocent bride's heart in heart of church The Telegraph Toughie 16 Jul 2015
Unenlightened The Telegraph Quick 15 Jul 2015
I've an alternative that's simple The Telegraph Cryptic 13 Jul 2015
Green USA Today 19 Jun 2015
With natural simplicity The Telegraph General Knowledge 31 May 2015
Wide-eyed, this person standing in body of church The Telegraph Cryptic 23 May 2015
Not street-savvy Universal 11 May 2015
Easily duped Wall Street Journal 27 Apr 2015
I dressed in blue for the most part, ending in pale green The Times Cryptic 20 Mar 2015
Innocent citizen lacks a bit of tact
Like Little Red Riding Hood New York Times 25 Feb 2015
Born yesterday Newsday 15 Feb 2015
Wide-eyed and unsophisticated Universal 21 Jan 2015
Trustingly innocent USA Today 19 Jan 2015
Too trusting
Easily duped
Overly sheltered from the ways of the world
Unsophisticated
Like Little Red Riding Hood
Young and inexperienced
Unsophisticated
Trustingly innocent
Green
Born yesterday
Easily duped
Easily fooled
Gullible
Not street-savvy
Wide-eyed and unsophisticated
Green tea initially rejected by aborigine
Natural source of water from the east
Simple backwater
Green brought over into blue via navy
Without a clue
Like a babe in the woods
Like one born yesterday
Dewy-eyed
Lacking worldliness
Artless
Credulous
Easily misled
Very unsophisticated
Unworldly
Easily snowed
One is in nave, wide-eyed
Believing in the green-cheese moon, say
Hardly ready for the world
Lacking worldliness
Inexperienced
Guileless
Believing in the green-cheese moon, say
Without worldly sophistication
Hardly ready for the world
Simple
Without worldly sophistication
Green, in a way
Wet behind the ears
Easily duped
Artless
Dewy-eyed
Easy to fool
Wet behind the ears
Easily flimflammed
Sucker-like
Foolable
Innocent
Gullible
Easily taken advantage of
Wet behind the ears
Gullible
Born yesterday
Simple to be the first person in the body of the church
Wide-eyed
Very unsophisticated
Too trusting
Innocent
Green
Innocent
Green
Unsuspecting
Young and inexperienced
Worldly-unwise
Worldly-unwise
Like Gomer Pyle
Easily flimflammed
Too trusting
Easily fooled
Born yesterday
Born yesterday, so to speak
Easily taken advantage of
Far from sophisticated
Without worldly wisdom
Too trusting
Unsuspecting
Like a babe in the woods
Credulous
Like a babe in the woods
Too trusting
Unwordly
Unquestioning
Too trusting
Not seasoned
Credulous
Lacking skepticism
Lacking skepticism
Not knowledgeable in the ways of the world
Willing to believe anything
Unaffected
Hardly ready for the world
In la-la land
Far from worldly
Like a babe in the woods
Unsophisticated
Easily conned
Easily duped
Unaffected
Ingenuous
Unsophisticated
Hardly ready for the world
Innocent, in a way
Innocent, in a way
Unsophisticated
Like a babe in the woods
Gullible
Too trusting
Born yesterday, so to speak
Unwary
Without worldly wisdom
Lacking skepticism
Unsophisticated
Not street-savvy
Worldly-unwise
Unsophisticated
Easily taken in
Artless
Simple
Easily duped
Gull-like
Unsophisticated
Dewy-eyed
Gullible
Ingenuous
Not street-savvy
Unsuspecting
Artless
Easily fooled
Easy to fool
Needing seasoning
Easy to fool
Born yesterday, so to speak
Unsophisticated
Far from worldly
Artless
Gullible
Ingenuous
Clueless
Dewy-eyed
Other than worldly
Ingenuous
Gullible
Like one born yesterday
Wet behind the ears
Easy to trick
Easy to trick
Easily flimflammed
Like Candide
Green
Green
Like one who just fell off the turnip truck
Easily conned
Childlike, in a way
Easily duped
Without a clue
Ingenuous
Without a clue
Ingenuous
Green
Born yesterday
Inexperienced
Like someone born yesterday
Certainly not worldly
Wide-eyed
Dewy-eyed
Easily had
Green, so to speak
Very unsophisticated
Gullible
Green
Wide-eyed
Innocent
Guileless
Easily taken advantage of
Guileless
Unworldly
Born yesterday, so to speak
Ingenuous
Callow
Like a greenhorn
Easily conned
Unworldly
Born yesterday, so to speak
Born yesterday
Unworldly
Like a babe in the woods
Green, in a way
Unfledged
Green, so to speak
Easy to deceive
Born yesterday
Like a greenhorn
Unaffected
Clueless
Like a babe in the woods
Not worldly-wise
Inexperienced
Childlike
Gullible
Not sophisticated
Like a gull
Unaffected
Frank and Jack, heading off around one
Unknowing
Overturning water, getting wet behind the ears
Too credulous
Unquestioning
Open
Ingenuous
Wet behind the ears
Easily duped
Credulous
Lacking worldliness
Lacking worldly wisdom
Like folk art
Trustingly innocent
Unaffected
Innocent
Innocent
Unschooled, as an artist
Like an ingénue
Credulous
Lacking sophistication
Like a babe in the woods
Childlike
Like an ingenue
Ineggsperienced
Far from sophisticated
Far from urbane
Uncritical
Unphilosophic
Ingenuous.
Unworldly
Artless.
Credulous.
Childlike.
Guileless.
Unsophisticated.
Gullible.
Not wordly-wise.
Simple.
Mighty credulous.
Without guile.
Unsuspecting.
Devoid of subtlety.
Untaught.
Unaffected.
Not worldly wise.
Uncritical.
Like Pollyanna
Not too worldly
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