Qualities

Synonyms for naive

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective · Reason line included

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitQualities

marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

A teenager's naive ignorance of life.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

naif

Same sentence, swapped: A teenager's naif ignorance of life.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for naive as it is used in the sentence above.

primitive
sophisticated
tender

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