NAIF Synonyms

• marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• inexperienced

• lacking information or instruction

• not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

• characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious

• simple and natural; without cunning or deceit

• showing lack of art

• (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

• disposed to believe on little evidence

• showing a lack of judgment or experience

• free of deceit

• naive and easily deceived or tricked

• easily tricked because of being too trusting

• free from evil or guilt

• a person who lacks knowledge of evil

• lacking intent or capacity to injure

• free from sin

• lacking in sophistication or worldliness

• not knowledgeable about something specified

• completely wanting or lacking

• (used of things) lacking sense or awareness

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

• a person lacking intelligence or common sense

• easy and not involved or complicated

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• lacking mental capacity and subtlety

• unornamented

• inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

• undergoing no change when acted upon

• emotionally unmoved

• free of artificiality; sincere and genuine

• unaware of or indifferent to

• not wise in the ways of the world

• lacking complexity

• awkwardly simple and provincial