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naive

  • EN [ naɪˈiːv]
  • US [ naɪˈiːv]
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English definition

    Adjective

  • 1. 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"
  • 2. lacking experience of life;

    • "a callow youth of seventeen"
  • 3. lacking sophistication

Example sentences

  • She is naive and will swallow anything you tell her.

  • The hastily assembled stimulus packages were a throwback to naive Keynesianism.

  • She's so naive that she believes everything he tells her.

  • Don't be naive. The matter is not so simple.

  • By being subtle rather than obvious, you avoid appearing naive.

  • Children often ask naive questions.

  • Such moods, however naive, were certainly neither wicked nor squalid.

  • When they did talk they slipped into the naive intimacy of college days.

  • We were these very pure, naive, poor children.

  • If you have patience and like naive love, I'll recommend this slow film for you.

  • This, too, is a naive idea in these times.

  • It's naive of you to believe he'll do what he says.

  • Her initial confidence can seem brash and naive.

  • She was still young and naive, with some girl's freshness.

  • Children are not naive, but it is not good at expression.

  • She is so naive that she believes everything he tells her.

  • He is so naive as to believe such a lie.

  • I wish she'd wake up ! She's so naive!

  • Don't be so naive as to be taken in by their lies.

  • to be politically naive

  • The drama takes an idealistic, even a naive view of the subject.

  • He was touchingly naive about sex.

  • I must have been naive to think we would get my parents' blessing.

  • I know I was a naive fool to trust him but he is a real charmer who totally took me in.

  • Her colourful oils and works on paper have a naive, dreamlike quality.

  • Her paintings have a naive, dreamlike quality.

  • The simple concepts he had been taught now sounded trite and naive.

  • Their view was that he had been politically naive.

  • The display of prehistoric monsters is comically naive.

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