naive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French naïve, feminine form of naïf, from Latin nātīvus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.
Inflected forms:
form: naiver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more naive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: naivest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most naive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: naïve
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: naiive
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: naives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: naïve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: naiive
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive
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.
gloss: Not having been exposed to something.
pos: adj
examples: Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]
gloss: Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: A naive person; a greenhorn.
pos: noun
examples: As a seasoned woman—of nineteen—I felt it was my place to tell each of these naïves that such plans were easier made than followed.
In other words, they'd buy securities from these naives for 55 and sell them similar securities for 65. In plain English, they'd pay $550 per $1,000 bond and turn right around and sell them similar stuff for $650.
Synonyms: artless
callow
childlike
verdant
clueless
credulous
dewy-eyed
cute
fleeceable
foppotee
green
guileless
ingenuous
innocent
jejune
Panglossian
Panglossic
quaint
simple
simple-hearted
simple-minded
starry-eyed
unaffected
undesigning
unpretentious
unsophisticated
untested
unworldly
wide-eyed
immature
born yesterday
wet behind the ears
virgin
Antonyms: affected
mature
nuanced
pretentious
sophisticated
wily
worldly
Related words: naif
naïf
naïveté
naivety
babe in the woods
be born yesterday
beginner
bumpkin
gullible
ingenue
mark
new
newbie
new kid on the block
noob
noobie
greenhorn
just fell off the back of a turnip truck
rube
sucker
sweet summer child
Derived words: bionaive
chemonaive
drug-naive
drug naive
immunologically naive
immunonaive
naive falsificationism
naively
naiveness
naive realist
naivism
naivist
semi-naive
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