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na·ive

or na·ïve  (nī-ēv′, nä-) also na·if or na·ïf (nī-ēf′, nä-)
adj.
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
b. Unsuspecting or credulous: naive victims of the scam.
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).
3. Not having experienced or been subjected to something, as:
a. Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.
b. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: patients naive to antipsychotic medication.
n.
One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.

[French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Old French naif, natural, native, from Latin nātīvus, native, rustic, from nātus, past participle of nāscī, to be born; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

na·ive′ly adv.
na·ive′ness n.
Synonyms: naive, simple, ingenuous, unsophisticated, natural, unaffected, guileless, artless
These adjectives mean free from guile, cunning, or sham. Naive sometimes connotes a credulity that impedes effective functioning in a practical world: "this naive simple creature, with his straightforward and friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" (Arnold Bennett).
Simple stresses absence of complexity, artifice, pretentiousness, or dissimulation: "Those of highest worth and breeding are most simple in manner and attire" (Francis Parkman)."Among simple people she had the reputation of being a prodigy of information" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
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 worldliness: the astonishment of unsophisticated tourists at the tall buildings. Natural stresses spontaneity that is the result of freedom from self-consciousness or inhibitions: "When Kavanagh was present, Alice was happy, but embarrassed; Cecilia, joyous and natural" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
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" (Jane Austen).
Guileless signifies absence of insidious or treacherous cunning: a guileless, disarming look. Artless stresses absence of plan or purpose and suggests unconcern for or lack of awareness of the reaction produced in others: a child of artless grace and simple goodness.
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naive

(naɪˈiːv) or

naïve

;

naïf

adj
1.
a. having or expressing innocence and credulity; ingenuous
b. (as collective noun; preceded by the): only the naive believed him.
2. artless or unsophisticated
3. lacking developed powers of analysis, reasoning, or criticism: a naive argument.
4. another word for primitive5
n
(Art Terms) rare a person who is naive, esp in artistic style. See primitive10
[C17: from French, feminine of naïf, from Old French naif native, spontaneous, from Latin nātīvus native, from nasci to be born]
naˈively, naˈïvely, naˈïfly adv
naˈiveness, naˈïveness, naˈïfness n
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na•ive

or na•ïve

(nɑˈiv)

adj.
1. having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature; unsophisticated; ingenuous.
2. having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous.
3. marked by a simple style reflecting little or no formal training: naive painting.
4. not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.
[1645–55; < French, feminine of naïf, Old French naif natural, instinctive < Latin nātīvus native]
na•ive′ly, adv.
na•ive′ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.naive - 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"
credulous - disposed to believe on little evidence; "the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous"
uninformed - not informed; lacking in knowledge or information; "the uninformed public"
unworldly - not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney
sophisticated - 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"
2.naive - 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"
beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art
untrained - not disciplined or conditioned or made adept by training; "an untrained voice"; "untrained troops"; "young minds untrained in the habit of concentration"
3.naive - inexperienced
innate, unconditioned, unlearned - not established by conditioning or learning; "an unconditioned reflex"
4.naive - lacking information or instructionnaive - lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"
uninformed - not informed; lacking in knowledge or information; "the uninformed public"
5.naive - 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"
inexperienced, inexperient - lacking practical experience or training
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naive

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naive

or naïve
also naif or naïf

adjective
2. Easily imposed on or tricked:
noun
A guileless, unsophisticated person:
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Translations
بَسيط وجاهِلسَاذَجٌساذِج
naivníprostoduchýprostý
naivenfoldig
naiivi
naivan
gyermeteg
barnalegur; einlægureinfaldur
うぶな
순진한
naiviainegudraujantis
aprobežotsnaivsvienkāršs
naiven
naiv
ไม่มีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม ไม่มีมารยา
saftoybasit ve hilesizbönnaiv
ngây thơ

naïve

naive [naɪˈiːv] ADJ
1. [person] → ingenuo; [argument] → simplista; [attitude, views] → ingenuo, cándido
2. (Art) → naif
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

naïve

naive [naɪˈiːv] adjnaïf/ïve
to be naïve of sb to do sth
It was naive of him to believe her → C'était naïf de sa part de la croire.
it's naive to think (that) ... → il est naïf de penser que ...
politically naive → politiquement naïf
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

naïve

adj (+er)naiv (also Art); person, remark alsoeinfältig
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

naïve

[naɪˈiːv] adjingenuo/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

naïve,

naive

(naiˈiːv) adjective
1. simple and straightforward in one's way of thinking, speaking etc.
2. ignorantly simple.
naˈively adverb
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

naive

سَاذَجٌ naivní naiv naiv αφελής ingenuo naiivi naïf naivan ingenuo うぶな 순진한 naïef naiv naiwny ingénuo, ingênuo наивный naiv ไม่มีเล่ห์เหลี่ยม ไม่มีมารยา saf ngây thơ 天真的
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

naive

a. ingenuo-a; cándido-a; inocente.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
Anna experienced almost physical pleasure in the sensation of his nearness, and his caresses, and moral soothing, when she met his simple, confiding, and loving glance, and heard his naive questions.
All the customs, all the laws, all the details, pertaining to the student duel are quaint and naive. The grave, precise, and courtly ceremony with which the thing is conducted, invests it with a sort of antique charm.
I can never forget his naive sort of astonishment when remonstrated with for what appeared a most dare-devil performance.
"What can be their reasons?" said Dorothea, with naive surprise.
Her whole face was positively beaming at that instant with naive, almost childish, triumph.
But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her.
To Philip it seemed crude and stupid; the naive obscenity--c'est la vie, mon cher, c'est la vie, he cried--the naive obscenity served only to emphasise the conventionality of the anecdote.
Laspara lived in the old town in a sombre, narrow house presented to him by a naive middle-class admirer of his humanitarian eloquence.
Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel's old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
Neither had success as yet affected their boyish simplicity and the frankness of old frontier habits; they played with their new-found riches with the naive delight of children, and rehearsed their glowing future with the importance and triviality of school-boys.
There is a naive side, I suppose, in all diplomacy; but if my pupils practiced upon me, it was surely with the minimum of grossness.
He put on the air of one who finds it impossible to reply to such nonsense, but it would in fact have been difficult to give any other answer than the one Prince Andrew gave to this naive question.