naif
- adjective
- /nɑːˈif/
- UK
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ingenuo
- He looks so naive and so happy, and I feel much more weathered.
So it was my mother, very pious, naive mother.
- So it was my mother, very pious, naive mother.
- I, I, I just think without painting a naive portrait of myself sitting here talking to you.
- I'm going to give voice to a sort of naive response to this, and I wonder how you'll respond to it.
- Just yesterday morning, in those naive days, I was reading an opinion piece by noted conservative pundit George F Will.
- And pure insight, if it's really pure insight, has to learn from what the naive consciousness has to say to it.
- But no, there was a naivete then that was just that was, it's hard for me to empathize with how like bright eyed, bushy tailed, naive I was.
Examples
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And can I have the Prime Minister's assurance that this silly and naive act was not in his name either?
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No, no, no, Magnus, don't act all naive and and innocent right now.
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I, I, I just think without painting a naive portrait of myself sitting here talking to you.
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So it was my mother, very pious, naive mother.
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Just yesterday morning, in those naive days, I was reading an opinion piece by noted conservative pundit George F Will.
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And pure insight, if it's really pure insight, has to learn from what the naive consciousness has to say to it.
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I'm going to give voice to a sort of naive response to this, and I wonder how you'll respond to it.
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He looks so naive and so happy, and I feel much more weathered.
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The first bit of advice is to moisturize when giving a commencement speech is to embrace naive optimism.
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Her naif belief that everyone would be kind led her to trust strangers too easily.
Synonyms
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4.1
Not experienced and too ready to trust others
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4.7
A person who has little experience of the world and seems naive
Not having experience of ordinary life
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Naif as an adjective comes from French naïf, meaning 'natural' or 'innocent', and is related to the English word native. That's why calling something or someone naif suggests a simple, fresh style or a lack of experience with the world.