naive

/nä-ˈēv/

French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Old French, inborn, natural, from Latin nativus native

adjective

  1. marked by unaffected simplicity : artless, ingenuous

  2. deficient in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; especially : credulous

  3. not previously subjected to experimentation or a particular experimental situation; also : not having previously used a particular drug (such as marijuana)

“coat, Sir Willoughby! do you call this thing a coat?”

natural ingenuous naive unsophisticated artless mean free from pretension or calculation. natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made world. ingenuous implies inability to disguise or conceal one's feelings or intentions.