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- Dictionarynaive/nʌɪˈiːv/
adjective
- 1. (of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement: "the rather naive young man had been totally misled"
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too ready to believe someone or something, or to trust that someone’s intentions are good, esp. because of a lack of experience: It was naive of her to think that she would ever get her money back.
The meaning of NAIVE is marked by unaffected simplicity : artless, ingenuous. How to use naive in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Naive.
Naive definition: having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous. See examples of NAIVE used in a sentence.
too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair. People are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience of life: She was very naive to believe that he'd stay with her.
If you describe someone as naive, you think they lack experience, causing them to expect things to be uncomplicated or easy, or people to be honest or kind when they are not.
adjective. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience. “a teenager's naive ignorance of life”. “the naive assumption that things can only get better”. “this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances”. synonyms: naif. credulous.
(disapproving) (of a person or action) not showing enough knowledge, good judgement or experience of life; too willing to believe that people always tell you the truth. to be politically naive. I can't believe you were so naive as to trust him! a naive question. It would be naive to imagine there is no risk involved. Wordfinder. Extra Examples.
Unaffectedly or foolishly simple; childlike; artless. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Not suspicious; credulous. Webster's New World. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment. American Heritage. Not having experienced or been subjected to something, as: American Heritage Medicine. Synonyms: uninitiated.
adj. 1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially: a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm. b. Unsuspecting or credulous: naive victims of the scam. 2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken). 3.
NAIVE definition: 1. If someone is naive, they believe things too easily and do not have enough experience of the…. Learn more.
