Naive: alternatives and connections

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

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Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

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Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.

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Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.

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Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emer…

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Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emer…

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Easily gulled; that may be duped.

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Easily gulled; that may be duped.

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Not having experience unskilled.

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Not having experience unskilled.

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Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

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Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

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Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

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Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

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Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance;…

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Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

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Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity.

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Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

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Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

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Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

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Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

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Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.

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Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.

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Not trained.

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Not trained.

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Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

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Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

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Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

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Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness.

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Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

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Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

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Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.

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Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting.

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Not having experience unskilled.

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Not having experience unskilled.

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Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

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Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

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Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

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Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.

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