naive

IPA: naɪˈiv

Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
Not having been exposed to something.
(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
(computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

Examples of "naive" in Sentences

Once it's here, it's spreading like a virus that's going into what we call a naive population.
He directed his ire at Hansen who had used the word "naive" in his assessment of the game in Monday's newspaper.
There's lots of highly sohpisticated people here and on our city council, and in fact, being naive is a virtue; we're not so cynical.
At a news conference today with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Mr. Bush took aim at what he called a naive conclusion and a political leak.
While I'm more than a little nervous that "naive" is code for "adorkably clumsy," I'm crossing my fingers that the agent Bynes replaced us with knows what he or she is doing.
At a news conference today with the visiting president of Afghanistan, Mr. Bush attacked what he called a naive conclusion drawn from a major government report on the war on terror.
(on camera): He says the U.S. should reject what he calls the naive and flawed thinking that by sitting down with terrorist groups and their sponsors like Iran, they'll stop being threats.
I also reject what I call the naive Austrian view, which is that the only information problem that markets cannot solve is that of seeing through the distortions caused by government money.
Now and then, rubbing his eyes vigorously, an editor catches a sudden glimpse of the revolution and breaks out in naive volubility, as, for instance, the one who wrote the following in the Chicago Chronicle: American socialists are revolutionists.