naïvely
/nɑˈivli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.54 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Alternative form of naively.
Example Sentences
- "I do not want to spend long in examining the arguments for this general deprecation of sense-perception or the intellectual motives for denying all credentials to sense-perception in order to enhance those of calculation, demonstration or religious faith. I want to get quickly to the much thornier briar-patch, the place, namely, where scientific accounts of perception seem to issue in the consequential doctrine that observers, including the physiologists and psychologists themselves, never perceive what they naïvely suppose themselves to perceive."
- "2005 September: John H. Jenkins, The Dao of Unihan, International & Text Group, Apple Computer, Inc. Users should not naïvely assume that learning to pronounce an East Asian language is all about learning to pronounce the individual ideographs […]"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more naïvely (comparative)
most naïvely (superlative)