Definitions
Etymologies
- From French naïf. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But the sense in which the term naif should be understood in literary criticism is so imperfectly agreed upon among us, that we have not yet even found an English equivalent for the word.”
“Barack Obama embraced this consensus during the campaign, only to be called a naif and an appeaser.”
“If, that is, the naif didn't know this was the same Mitch McConnell who has turned filibustering into an art form.”
“It gets tiresome to do the google work for a 'naif'.”
“Banyak di antara para menginginkan orang Batak, orang Melayu, KH Abdurrahman Wahid adalah tokoh nasional yang sejak awal mengedepankan politisi yang berasal dari akademisi menjadi orang Jawa, atau keturunan Chinese yang pernah mengenyam pendidikan saja pun di belakang tim pemenangan para calon pluralisme dan kemajemukan di Indonesia sehingga patut disebut sebagai Bapak berani mengajukan dirinya bahkan banyak dalam berbagai pemilihan umum baik un - terkesan "naif" dengan pernyataan-pernya - lebih cocok.”
“The first century Egyptian funerary "Mummy Portraits," on wood panels, so vivid and naif, inspired styles of Christian icon paintings that lasted well into the 19th century in Russia.”
“The Liar in Chief has ties with Sachs, colludes with the CEO and he, this inept naif with no business background is telling Wall St,. and me, and you, because 54% of us are investors Obama, to shape up or they will come down on the system.”
“(And I'm saying this as a real econ naif, so go easy on me.)”
Over-worked or Over-taxed?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“There are divisions here, genuine ideological disagreements about how to approach so many of these problems, and only a naif would dismiss that.”
The Huffington Post: Beyond Left, Right And Center: It's About Reality
“Asking as a mathematical naif, what happened to22/7?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘naif’.
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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grassdog's Words
schadenfreude, sanguine, nefarious, verisimilitude, antediluvian, salacious, obfuscate, plethora, cacophony, defenestration, vacillate, blasphemy and 478 more...
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Words to Use
Good for vocab! The seemingly common words are actually referring to lesser-known definitions.
depravity, lampoonery, copacetic, ferrule, feat, saddle, scroop, auteur, demiurge, paunch, peripatetic, demur and 104 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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Words
apoplectic, absolve, accentuate, accost, acrimony, adjudicate, adulate, affront, agrarian, alacrity, ambivalence, ascetic and 120 more...
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jm3's Words
extant, vadis, fruit-forward, flossy, tout court, oubliette, ganef, demimonde, cuvee, indistinct, tractable, aegis and 15 more...
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YO FAV WORDS HERE
solipsism, manticore, cameleopard, milquetoast, rapscallion, nostrum, lackadaisy, speakeasy, rumrunner, hydrophoby, dithyramb, avarice and 85 more...
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English doesn't have a word for it
angst, ennui, weltschmerz, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, ubermensch, laissez-faire, rendez-vous, naif, sashimi, picarro, pizzicato and 9 more...
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Duped
Those who are easily duped.
cully, cull, gudgeon, gull, gull-gallant, chouse, geck, chump, fall guy, mark, fool, mug and 39 more...
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Favourites
Awesomest words
ibilby, aporrhoea, aporrhoea, cagastric, flother, nortelrye, inchoate, wroth, shrift, triskaton, superfluity, paean and 18 more...
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Words I wish would come (back?) into ...
These are words that I find slightly old-fashioned. I confess to reading a lot of Austen and Trollope as of late, which puts me in the mood for this list. N.B. These words don't come directly fr...
jaunty, postprandial, bespoke, naif, quincunx, haberdashery, ingenue, shan't, scrivener, albeit, cheeky, epistolary and 26 more...
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Ge...
Words culled from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers.
stockbrokering, tempera, herpetologist, bloodred, memoir-y, remaindered, planethood, puffery, pshaw, naif, gimmickry, poseurism and 48 more...
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