naive
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5.1
- adjective
- /nɑːˈiːv/
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naíf
- The artist's style is very naive, with simple shapes and bright colors that capture a childlike perspective.
- naive art
- naive realism
- rather naive
And I often use this expression of, you know, you've got to wash your eyes clean and you have to dare to be what Peter Brook called naive.
- And I often use this expression of, you know, you've got to wash your eyes clean and you have to dare to be what Peter Brook called naive.
Examples
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From an adult perspective, the child's view of justice and equality is considered naive and oversimplified.
Academic text (1993) -
Perhaps my thoughts are naive, but I need no philosophy to come.
Blog text (3) -
At the level of art in our culture, I often start any project by asking a naive question.
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It only exists in the naive stories of children!
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And sometimes the musical occasion requires the lyrics to be deliberately naive.
Academic text (2009) -
It's amazing how well this very naive and simplified approximation works.
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No longer shy, she is friendly in a childishly naive and utterly disarming way.
Academic text (1992) -
And yet, like other scholars, geographers have tended to be curiously naive.
Academic text (2000) -
But still, the work often has a sort of naive vitality that you can't help admiring from time to time...
Blog text (26) -
But the mosaics in the San Marco narthex clearly expressed a quite different organizing theme in their charmingly naive iconography.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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2.9
Not experienced and unaware of how things work
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7.7
Having childlike trust and little experience of life
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5.9
Made by people without training, with a simple, direct style
Antonyms
Compounds
Art made by people without formal training that looks simple and childlike, often with bright colors
- Specialized
A simple method that uses chance to put items into groups, assuming each detail acts alone
How Childlike
Surface Forms
Etymology
Naive for art comes from French naïf and Latin nativus, meaning 'natural', so naive art is work by self-taught artists that looks simple, fresh, or childlike.