Synonym: naif, primitive, unenlightened, uninitiate, uninitiated, uninstructed. Similar words: nail, questionnaire, give, live, five, liver, dived, river. Meaning: [nɑ'ɪːv /naɪ'ɪːv] adj. 1. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience 2. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style 3. inexperienced 4. lacking information or instruction 5. not initiated; deficient in relevant experience.
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(91) I'd say she's a bit of a fanatic, and just as naive as the rest of them.
(92) Their philosophy may have seemed reckless and naive but, given the nature of the marketplace, it was understandable.
(93) He is a renowned and honourable man, but with regard to this matter he is either being naive or obtuse.
(94) Standard economic theory would dismiss the effort as naive and counterproductive.
(95) We have already seen how the naive inductivist accounts for the explanatory and predictive power of science.
(96) She was awkward, and naive, and thrifty, and ill-read, and genteel.
(97) Optimistic and somewhat naive, I set about the task of raising funds and organizing operations.
(98) Our naive arrangements, it seemed, had opened a social can of worms.
(99) It also shows that Brutus was quite naive towards the reasons which the other conspirators had for killing Caesar.
(100) Am I naive or snobbish in thinking that better standards ought to be enforced by the employers?
(101) However, it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so.
(102) The implicit assumption of the naive Phillips curve was that the expected rate of inflation was zero.
(103) The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive, rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment.
(104) The typical punter is a lot more naive than licensed dealers let on.
(105) In the first instance she arranges the marriage of Elgiva to the sensitive and naive king.
(106) It gives a dynamic picture of science rather than the static account of the most naive falsificationists.
(107) It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively - which means to live authentically-is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding - from others and also from themselves. Nathaniel Branden
(108) At the time the criticism in the press seemed irrelevant because it was so naive.
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(109) But it would be naive in the extreme to believe that the system is always unjust.
(110) However, such naive views, as we shall see later, were to be proved incorrect.
(111) Figure 9b shows the space which a naive search algorithm will explore for this task.
(112) He was not naive, nor was he blind to the greedy practices of some merchants and manufacturers in his day.
(113) Can Misha Glenny be so politically naive that he has unwittingly turned into an apologist for aggression?
(114) And even though I'd had the baby, I was still very naive.
(115) Cragg and Malkiel provided evidence that professional analysts were no more accurate than naive earnings forecasting methods over 5-year horizons.
(116) Many might seek to use the asylum route and, indeed, it would be naive to think otherwise.
(117) When the product is the supplier it is naive to suppose that the same rules apply.
(118) I think we all know that the book clubs are not naive.
(119) This do-or-die attitude clashes with the caution advocated by the naive inductivist.
(120) We seem to be laboring under the naive notion that teen-age girls get pregnant after going too far with their high-school classmates.