Qualities
Synonyms for naive
Synonyms for naive: naif, gullible and unenlightened. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for naive
Interchangeable with naive in this sense
Audited under naive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one naive carries in that sense.
- naifadjective, in the sense "marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name naive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gulliblegullible is an adjective in the sense "easily deceived or tricked due to being too trusting"
- unenlightenedunenlightened is an adjective in the sense "lacking information or instruction"
one of these comes from naive's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
A teenager's naive ignorance of life.
The true synonym
naif
Same sentence, swapped: A teenager's naif ignorance of life.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot naive is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- primitive
- sophisticated
- tender
Where naive turns up in the game
naive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where naive is the trap
- ignorantadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is illiterate, in the sense "uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning", with naive sitting one tile away.
- primitiveadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is archaic, in the sense "little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type", and naive is one of the three tiles that lose.
- ignorantadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unlearned, in the sense "uneducated in general", with naive sitting one tile away.
Play naive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so naive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. naive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.