Naive

Definition of naive:

part of speech: adverb

Naively.

part of speech: adjective

Artless; frank; simple; as, naive manners.

Usage examples for naive:

• But Malcourt let him tell the news in his own way; and he did, imparting it in bits with naive enjoyment, apparently utterly unconscious that he was doing exactly what his superintendent had told him to do. "The Firing Line", Robert W. Chambers.

• On the other, there is a body of almost naive evidence in this text unpolluted by that very mythology. "The Flying Saucers are Real", Donald Keyhoe.

• I suppose it was rather naive of me to think that I could, all at once, make a change like that. "Mary Wollaston", Henry Kitchell Webster.