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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024na•ive or na•ïve /nɑˈiv/USA pronunciation adj. - childlike and innocent.
- showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment;
gullible.
na•ive•ly, adv. See -nat-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024na•ive (nä ēv′),USA pronunciation adj. - having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality;
unsophisticated;
ingenuous. - having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information;
credulous:She's so naive she believes everything she reads. He has a very naive attitude toward politics. - having or marked by a simple, unaffectedly direct style reflecting little or no formal training or technique:valuable naive 19th-century American portrait paintings.
- not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.
Also, na•ïve′. - Latin nātīvus native
- French, feminine of naïf, Old French naif natural, instinctive
- 1645–55
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged simple, unaffected, unsuspecting, artless, guileless, candid, open, plain.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged sophisticated, artful.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: naive, naïve /naɪˈiːv/naïf adj - having or expressing innocence and credulity; ingenuous
- lacking developed powers of analysis, reasoning, or criticism: a naive argument
- another word for primitive
n - rare a person who is naive, esp in artistic style
Etymology: 17th Century: from French, feminine of naïf, from Old French naif native, spontaneous, from Latin nātīvus native, from nasci to be bornnaˈively, naˈïvely, naˈïfly adv naˈiveness, naˈïveness, naˈïfness n |