Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

semi-naive

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: semi--naive
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Partially naive.

adj

Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.

Example Sentences

"Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl."
"They are semi-civilized and semi-naive people."
"Broken Hill also produced the actor Chips Rafferty, famous for his portrayal of the laconic Australian male, and the artist Pro Hart, whose semi-naive paintings of inland Australian life, especially in mining towns, captured the imagination of many who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s."
"We would like to know if correlating some of the disjoint (and conditionally independent) feature subsets of a semi-naive Bayes can improve its predictive accuracy."

Etymology

From semi- + naive.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: semi

Inflected Forms

more semi-naive (comparative) most semi-naive (superlative) semi-naïf (alternative) seminaive (alternative) seminaïve (alternative) semi-naïve (alternative)

Questions

What does semi-naive mean?: Partially naive.
Where does semi-naive come from?: From semi- + naive.

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