Naive
[naɪ'iːv;nɑː'iːv] or [naɪ'iv]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [Fr.] Artless, unaffected, ingenuous, natural, plain, simple, unsophisticated, candid.
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Examples
- I knew that it was his love of display and authority which had brought him there--a love not offensive, only because so naive. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Celia was not without a touch of naive malice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Brooke was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He showed the white object under his arm, which was a tiny Maltese puppy, one of nature's most naive toys. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The former is spontaneous, naive, and simple. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Holmes laughed at the young giant's naive astonishment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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