naive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nī-ēv′
enpr: nä-ēv′
ipa: /naɪˈiːv/
ipa: /nɑːˈiːv/
note: Indic
ipa: /naˈjiv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: more naive
form: most naive
form: naïve
Etymology: Borrowed from French naïve, feminine form of naïf, from Latin nātīvus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.
Senses: examples: text: Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried directly to reach and to persuade the individual voter.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 418:
text: I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive
ref: 1965, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”, in The Sound of Music:
text: The salarians believed the genophage would be used as a deterrent, a position the turians viewed as naive. Once the project was complete, the turians mass produced and deployed it. The krogan homeworld, their colonies, and all occupied worlds were infected.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan: Genophage Codex entry:
glosses: Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
examples: text: Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]
ref: 2011, Lila Miller, Kate Hurley, Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters:
glosses: Not having been exposed to something.
examples: text: By 1921 when Miró painted his key work, naive painting had been recognized by the avantgarde art world as a genre in its own right.
ref: 2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
raw_tags: of art
examples: text: We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.
ref: 2007, Takao Terano, Huan Liu, Arbee L.P. Chen, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
Synonyms: word: artless
word: callow
word: childlike
word: clueless
word: credulous
word: dewy-eyed
word: cute
word: fleeceable
word: green
word: guileless
word: ingenuous
word: innocent
word: jejune
word: Panglossian
word: Panglossic
word: quaint
word: simple
word: simple-hearted
word: simple-minded
word: starry-eyed
word: unaffected
word: undesigning
word: unpretentious
word: unsophisticated
word: untested
word: unworldly
word: wide-eyed
word: immature
word: born yesterday
word: wet behind the ears
word: virgin
Hypernyms: word: foolish
word: ignorant
word: inexperienced
word: lacking
Hyponyms: word: ultracredulous
Derived terms: bionaive
chemonaive
drug-naive
drug naive
immunologically naive
immunonaive
naive falsificationism
naively
naiveness
naive realist
naivism
naivist
semi-naive
Related terms: word: naif
word: naïf
word: naïveté
word: naivety
word: babe in the woods
word: be born yesterday
word: beginner
word: bumpkin
word: gullible
word: ingenue
word: mark
word: new
word: newbie
word: new kid on the block
word: noob
word: noobie
word: greenhorn
word: just fell off the back of a turnip truck
word: rube
word: sucker
word: sweet summer child