List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 249

SYNONYMS: naïve, simple, ingenuous, unsophisticated, natural, unaffected, guileless, artless.
These adjectives mean free from guile, cunning, or sham.

Naïve suggests the simplicity of nature; it sometimes connotes a credulity that impedes effective functioning in a practical world: She was a naïve simple creature.
Simple stresses absence of complexity, artifice, pretentiousness, or dissimulation; it may imply a favorable quality, such as openness of character, or an unfavorable one, such as lack of good sense: Among simple people she had the reputation of being a prodigy of information.
Ingenuous denotes childlike directness, simplicity, and innocence; it connotes an inability to mask one's feelings: an ingenuous admission of responsibility.
Unsophisticated indicates absence of worldly wisdom: The sights of Paris bowled over the unsophisticated tourists.
Natural stresses spontaneity that is the result of freedom from self-consciousness or inhibitions: They were just their own natural selves.
Unaffected implies sincerity and lack of affectation: With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
Guileless signifies absence of insidious or treacherous cunning: a harmless, honest, guileless creature; a guileless, disarming look.
Artless stresses absence of plan or purpose, as to mislead, and suggests a lack of concern for or awareness of the reaction produced in others: a woman of artless grace.