navet
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9.9
- noun
- /nɑːˈveɪ/
- Slang
- July uses navet as a weapon, daring her audience to drop its collective guard rather than simply offering a retreat into childish simplicity.
Examples
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He believed that these essential components of good art arose from closeness to nature: navet from its roots in "native" and simplicity from its Rousseauesque overlay of the unsophisticated and the unspoiled.
Academic text (2007) -
Navet was furthermore a quality he attributed to ancient art, and he found this same association in Stal's "primitive elements of feeling" in antique sculpture.
Academic text (2007) -
Since In Flames is playing the House of Blues again soon, it seems appropriate to dredge up this tale of navet, with no holds barred.
Blog text (29) -
The critics labeled the movie a navet due to its poor acting and clichéd plot.
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Everyone laughed at the navet that was supposed to be a serious drama but ended up being unintentionally funny.
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Despite its breathtaking visuals, many called the film a navet because of its lack of substance.
Synonyms
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3.1
Words or writing that have no value
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Cheap low quality things with little value
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A thing or person of low quality and bad taste
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Very low quality art or entertainment that lacks new ideas
A very bad movie that makes cinema look worse
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Navet comes from French and originally meant the vegetable 'turnip'. People began calling poor plays and films navets because a turnip seemed plain or cheap, so today navet means a badly made or low-quality movie or play.