noun
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A naive person; a greenhorn.
adjective
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Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
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Not having been exposed to something.
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(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
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Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
Examples of naive in a Sentence
When she was young and naive, she had dreamed of such a job.
You're a naive little child.
Oh, so you are still naive enough to hope he'll stick around.
Almost all of them stared with naive, childlike curiosity at Pierre's white hat and green swallow-tail coat.
You're inexperienced, innocent — even naive, but you're not immature.
Dean realized from his past experience that being forthcoming and subjecting himself to interrogation without an attorney was naive but the entire idea of his trying to kill Shipton was so ludicrous in his mind, he tended to minimize the seriousness of the situation.
Was he mocking her, or did he think she was naive enough to believe his outrageous flattery?
The little princess, like an old war horse that hears the trumpet, unconsciously and quite forgetting her condition, prepared for the familiar gallop of coquetry, without any ulterior motive or any struggle, but with naive and lighthearted gaiety.
The modern untutored native has a not dissimilar undeveloped and childlike attitude towards the divine, a naive theology and a simple cultus.
With the naive conviction of young men in a merry mood that other men's wives were created for them, Rostov did not leave the lady's side and treated her husband in a friendly and conspiratorial style, as if, without speaking of it, they knew how capitally Nicholas and the lady would get on together.
It is in the simple narrative and naive egotism of Le Mie prigioni that he has established his strongest claim to remembrance, winning fame by his misfortunes rather than by his genius.
But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, Brothers!
And with a Frenchman's easy and naive frankness the captain told Pierre the story of his ancestors, his childhood, youth, and manhood, and all about his relations and his financial and family affairs, "ma pauvre mere" playing of course an important part in the story.
An immediate outcome of the new friendship was Schiller's admirable essays, published in the Horen (1795-1796) and collected in 1800 under the title Ober naive and sentimentalische Dichtung.
The naive and fragmentary precepts of conduct, which are everywhere the earliest manifestation of nascent moral reflection, are a noteworthy element in the gnomic poetry of the 7th and 6th centuries B.C. Their importance is shown by the traditional enumeration of the Seven Sages of the 6th century, and their influence on ethical thought is attested by the references of Plato and Aristotle.
In his case, moreover, it was strengthened by a naive piety that forbade him to search into things of which the gods seemed to have reserved the knowledge to themselves.
This naive temper of the middle ages is nowhere more conspicuously displayed than in the Feast of the Ass, which under various forms was celebrated in a large number of churches throughout the West.
All his loquacity was suddenly arrested and replaced by a naive and silent feeling of admiration.
For a true appreciation of the chaotic polytheism that reveals itself even in the earliesttexts it would be necessary to be able to trace its development, stage by stage, out of a number of naive primitive cults; but the period of growth lies behind recorded history, and we are here reduced to hypotheses and a posleriori reconstructions.
It is doubtless such explanations as these that the Greeks had in view when they praised the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians; and, in the classical period similar semi-philosophical interpretations altogether supplanted, among the learned at least, the naive literal beliefs of earlier times.
But in 1798 appeared Hermann and Dorothea, one of Goethe's most perfect poems. It is indeed remarkable - when we consider by how much reflection and theoretic discussion the composition of the poem was preceded and accompanied - that it should make upon the reader so simple and "naive" an impression; in this respect it is the triumph of an art that conceals art.
He shows no greater political insight than we should expect from his position; but relates what he had seen and heard with a naive vivacity which compels attention.
Nearly all the best writers are characterized by a certain naive and earnest piety which is attractive, and not infrequently display a force of moral indignation which arrests attention.
Pierre looked over his spectacles with naive surprise, now at him and now at her, moved as if about to rise too, but changed his mind.
David, sometimes you're so naive, it's incredible.
My work is mainly inspired by old advertising imagery, naive drawings and textile design.
If genuine, its naive theory that thought copies things and other features of its contents would tend to place it among the earliest works of the philosopher.
Hilary especially illustrates the prevalence of naive Docetic views as regards the details of the Incarnation.
But that was when she was naive and he was her idol.
How could she have been so... naive?
The images appear immediately naive, accessible, simple.
Pierre looked at Rostopchin with naive astonishment, not understanding why he should be disturbed by the bad composition of the Note.
Virgo's idealistic and often naive nature will seldom be disappointed by stalwart Capricorn.
While safety is closely monitored, the challenge is not for the untrained or naive.
You're inexperienced, innocent — even naive, but you're not immature.
She looks like a young Sigourney Weaver and plays the naive heroine well, if a little too credulous for my taste.
Their heirs later even sent a huge pagan idol, a ' Statue of Liberty ', to naive Americans.
Whilst Steve Woodhouse's Return of the Naive's was more indie orientated.
Oh, she was willing enough, just seemed naive, not knowing what was what.
These projects do involve electricity, so you don't want to be naive going in.
Do you think with the right woman a man changes his dating habits, or am I being naive?
That's what makes youth so innocent and so naive.
I was just a naive Parsifal along for the ride.
But no, she had been so certain, so naive.
He'd have to have been pretty naive.
When you start removing your clothes, naive or not, you've got to realize you're doing something wrong.
One likely error is the error of naive empiricism.
A manager, unless he feels as invulnerable as 007, will rarely be so naive as to make the approach himself.
To me this is politically naive in the extreme.
Furthermore, his suggestions for what might replace the UN are incredibly naive.