naive

Alternative spellings

• naïve

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïve, from Latin nativus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈiv/

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Adjective

naive (comparative more naive, superlative most naive)

1. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

   Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!

2. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

   I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.

3. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
   • 2007, Takao Terano, ‎Huan Liu, ‎& Arbee L.P. Chen, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, →ISBN:

     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.

Anagrams

• naevi, navie, nævi

Adjective

naive

1. plural and definite of naiv

Adverb

naive

1. naively

Adjective

naive

1. inflected form of naiv

Adjective

naive

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of naiv.