mindmap root((天真)) natural implies lacking artificiality and self-consciousness and having a spontaneousness suggesting the natural rather than the man-made: her unaffected, ~ quality comes across on film. ingenuous implies inability to disguise or conceal one's feelings or intentions and usually implies candid frankness and lack of reserve: the ~, spontaneous utterances of children. naive suggests lack of worldly wisdom often connoting credulousness and unchecked innocence: in money matters she is distressingly ~. unsophisticated implies a lack of experience and training necessary for social ease and adroitness: the store intimidates ~ customers. artless suggests a naturalness resulting from unawareness of the effect one is producing on others: gave an ~ impromptu speech at the dinner.