<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous: She's so naive she believes everything she reads.</li><li>He has a very naive attitude toward politics.</li><li>having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous.</li><li>Synonyms: plain, open, candid, guileless, artless, unaffected, simple</li><li>Antonyms: artful, sophisticated</li><li>having or marked by a simple, unaffectedly direct style reflecting little or no formal training or technique: valuable naive 19th-century American portrait paintings.</li><li>not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.</li></ul>