naive

Adjective

• 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
    

• lacking information or instruction
  • lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
    

• inexperienced

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  uninitiate , uninitiated , uninstructed , unenlightened , primitive , naif