naive
/naɪˈiv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
adj
Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
Example Sentences
- "Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried directly to reach and to persuade the individual voter."
- "I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive"
- "The salarians believed the genophage would be used as a deterrent, a position the turians viewed as naive. Once the project was complete, the turians mass produced and deployed it. The krogan homeworld, their colonies, and all occupied worlds were infected."
- "Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]"
- "By 1921 when Miró painted his key work, naive painting had been recognized by the avantgarde art world as a genre in its own right."
- "We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵenh₁-, nātīvus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /naɪˈiv/
- British English: /naɪˈiːv/
Inflected Forms
naiver (comparative)
more naive (comparative)
naivest (superlative)
most naive (superlative)
naïve (alternative)
naiive (alternative, nonstandard)
naives (plural)