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Adjective naive has 3 senses
- naive, naif - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "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"
Antonyms: sophisticated, blase, worldly, intelligent, well-informed, polished, refined, svelte, urbane, worldly-wise
- callow, inexperienced, naive, unsophisticated - lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"
Antonym: mature (indirect, via immature)
- naive, unsophisticated - lacking sophistication
Antonym: artful (indirect, via artless)
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