Naive describes someone who lacks experience or worldly understanding and therefore tends to trust people or situations too easily. It can also mean simple and natural, without hidden complexity.
From French *naïf, naïve* “natural, simple,” from Latin *nativus* “native, inborn,” from *nasci* “to be born.” The idea is of someone being in a raw, unshaped state, like a newborn to the world’s tricks.
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