naive

About 5.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
2. adjective Not having been exposed to something.
3. adjective Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
4. adjective Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
5. noun A naive person; a greenhorn.

Similar words

ignorant inexperienced childlike unsophisticated ingenuous artless naif innocent simple simple-minded

Often followed by

and to as in or about realism enough belief

Word family

naively naiveness naivenesses naiver naivest naïve naïvely