naively
/nʌɪˈiːvli
/(also naïvely)
adverb
In a way that shows a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement: I naively thought having wealth would bring happiness [as submodifier]: a naively optimistic vision of the future...
- Interestingly, we are not offered a naively romantic picture of her mother's success.
- I knew the answer to this naively stupid question.
- Some people would have been naively hopeful that something of the truth would emerge from this.
- onomatopoetically
- onomatopoiesis
- onomatopoietic
- onomatopoësis
- onomatous
- Onondaga
- on one's back
- on one's beam ends
- on one's conscience
- on one's feet
- on one's haunches
- on one's high horse
- on one's hind legs
- on one's honour
- on one's jack (or Jack Jones)
- on one's knees
- on one's last legs
- on one's (or the) doorstep
- on one's own
- on one's own account
- on one's own ground
- on one's own hook
- on one's own initiative
- on one's own responsibility
- on one's plate