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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"
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of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style;
"primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
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inexperienced
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lacking information or instruction;
"lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"
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not initiated; deficient in relevant experience;
"it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"
"he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"