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adj. inexperienced

adj. 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"

primitive, naive

adj. 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"

naive, unsophisticated, inexperienced, callow

adj. lacking practical experience or training

uninstructed, unenlightened, naive

adj. lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"

uninitiate, uninitiated, naive

adj. 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"

natural

adj. in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena"

trusting

adj. inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful"- Nordhoff & Hall

young

adj. being in its early stage; "a young industry"; "the day is still young"

fresh

adj. recently made, produced, or harvested; "fresh bread"; "a fresh scent"; "fresh lettuce"

new

adj. unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"

youthful, vernal, young

adj. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age"

inexperienced, inexperient

adj. lacking practical experience or training

guileless, honest

adj. free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest"

unstudied

adj. lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"

ingenuous, artless

adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"

beginning, novice

adj. serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse"

crude, primitive, rude

adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"

embryonic, embryotic

adj. in an early stage of development; "the embryonic government staffed by survivors of the massacre"; "an embryonic nation, not yet self-governing"

incipient, inchoate

adj. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea"

precocious

adj. appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"

adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile

adj. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

babyish

adj. characteristic of a baby; "babyish tears and petulance"

childish, infantile

adj. indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"

unacquainted(p), unacquainted with(p), unfamiliar with(p)

adj. having little or no knowledge of; "unacquainted with city ways"

newsless

adj. not having or receiving news or information

unadvised

adj. having received no information; "a defendant unadvised of her legal rights"

ignorant, unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting

adj. unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting"

unread

adj. not informed through reading; "he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington

apprentice, novice

adj. in training: "an apprentice carpenter"

fledgling, unfledged, callow

adj. young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer"

unseasoned, untested, untried, young

adj. not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing"

raw, new

adj. lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits"

unpracticed, unpractised, unversed

adj. not having had extensive practice

sophisticated

adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"

mature

adj. characteristic of maturity; "mature for her age"

mellow, mellowed

adj. having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging; "a mellow port"; "mellowed fruit"

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