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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Ingenuous; artless; natural: the masculine form, naïve being the corresponding feminine (but used also, in English, without regard to gender: see naïve).
  2. Having a natural luster: applied by jewelers to precious stones.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Naive.
  2. n. One who is naive.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
  2. adj. Naïve.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
  2. n. a naive or inexperienced person

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from French naïf. (Wiktionary)

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  1. naive

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Other words for ‘naïf’

  1. simple-minded
  2. gullible
  1. round-eyed
  2. innocent
  1. green
  2. simple
  1. childlike
  2. dewy-eyed
  1. fleeceable
  2. unworldly
  1. unsophisticated
  2. credulous
  1. ingenuous
  2. wide-eyed

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  1. innocent
  1. inexperienced person

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. disingenuous

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