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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
naive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ I'd say she's a bit of a fanatic, and just as naive as the rest of them.
▪ Standard economic theory would dismiss the effort as naive and counterproductive.
▪ But to regard him as naive rather than evil is to miss the point.
▪ However, it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so.
▪ A radical criminology which appears to deny this will be seen as naive and rightly rejected.
▪ Students objected to being portrayed as naive, immature and easily-led innocents.
▪ Could anyone be as naive as Jett appeared to be?
▪ I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison.
rather
▪ This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death.
▪ Many, if not most, of their theories seem rather naive, even childlike, today.
▪ It is an attempt, perhaps a rather naive attempt, to apply information theory to decoration.
▪ Certainly, more modern uses of the survey method have disregarded some of the rather naive methodological assumptions of the early surveys.
▪ The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive, rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment.
so
▪ This is where you are so naive.
▪ The explanations in the official report are so naive that they can not be taken seriously.
▪ At the time the criticism in the press seemed irrelevant because it was so naive.
▪ Realities were not so simple, men neither so cynical, nor so naive.
too
▪ It's almost too naive to ask!
very
▪ Manufacturers wrote their own copy and it appears very naive now.
▪ She was beautiful and sweet but very naive.
▪ And even though I'd had the baby, I was still very naive.
▪ I must have been very naive.
▪ He admitted he had been very naive when he began giving away his fortune six years ago.
▪ I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast.
▪ Kattina was either a practised inquisitor, or very naive.
■ NOUN
view
▪ This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death.
▪ This is, clearly, a pretty naive view, even of a direct response campaign.
▪ This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned.
▪ However, such naive views, as we shall see later, were to be proved incorrect.
▪ She uses the vignettes to explode a naive view of romantic fulfilment in marriage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He held onto the naive belief that Marxism would solve all the world's problems.
▪ I was so naive - I believed everything the military told me.
▪ Stewart plays the naive new senator.
▪ We're not naive anymore like we were in the 60s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Is anyone in domestic or foreign government stupid enough or naive enough to believe this?
▪ It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence.
▪ She struggled to analyze whether this was a naive point of view; or worthless cynicism.
▪ Talking with Bimal I realized how wrong - or naive - I had been.
▪ Yet only a naive observer would say that his son is not powerful.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
naive

naive \na*ive"\, naive \na*["i]ve"\(n[aum]*[=e]v"), a. [F. na["i]f, fem. na["i]ve, fr. L. nativus innate, natural, native. See Native, and cf. Na["i]f.]

  1. Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, na["i]ve manners; a na["i]ve person; na["i]ve and unsophisticated remarks.

  2. Having a lack of knowledge, judgment, or experience; especially, lacking sophistication in judging the motives of others; credulous; as, a naive belief in the honesty of politicians.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
naive

1650s, "natural, simple, artless," from French naïve, fem. of naïf, from Old French naif "naive, natural, genuine; just born; foolish, innocent; unspoiled, unworked" (13c.), from Latin nativus "not artificial," also "native, rustic," literally "born, innate, natural" (see native (adj.)). Related: Naively.

Wiktionary
naive

a. 1 Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated. 2 (context of art English) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

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WordNet
naive

  1. adj. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances" [syn: naif] [ant: sophisticated]

  2. lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen" [syn: callow, inexperienced, unsophisticated]

  3. lacking sophistication [syn: unsophisticated]

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Wikipedia
Naïve (song)

"Naïve" is a song by British indie rock band The Kooks. It was released on 27 March 2006 as the fourth single from their debut studio album, Inside In/Inside Out (2006).

"Naïve" charted at number five on the UK Singles Chart. The best-selling single of the band's career, it was the UK's nineteenth best selling single of 2006. It also did relatively well in New Zealand, reaching number 15 on the combined sales/airplay RIANZ chart. The song additionally charted in the United States, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.

Naïve (album)

Naïve is the fifth album by industrial rock group KMFDM. It was released on November 15, 1990. It was recorded in Hamburg, Germany upon KMFDM's return from their first visit to America and subsequent tour with Ministry. It was also the first record that they released after signing directly to Wax Trax! Records.

The album was out of print for over a decade due to copyright infringement: the seventh track, "Liebeslied", used unauthorized samples from a recording of "O Fortuna", from Carl Orff's 1930s cantata Carmina Burana. The album was recalled approximately three years after being released. Copies today are rare and considered collector's items. In addition to this, "Godlike" samples "Angel of Death" by Slayer and "Go To Hell" uses the same riff as Metallica's "Metal Militia", although re-performed (and possibly just a coincidence given how simple the riff is).

All of the tracks on the album, except for the original mixes of "Die Now-Live Later", "Liebeslied" and "Go to Hell" were subsequently available on other discs. The album was re-released as Naïve/Hell to Go, with some songs remixed, in 1994. A digitally remastered reissue of Naïve was released on November 21, 2006, along with Money and Angst. It was reissued with an edited version of the track "Liebeslied" without the offending sample. It also features the remixes that initially appeared on Naïve/Hell to Go.

Naive (Micky & the Motorcars album)

Naive is Micky & the Motorcars' fourth album. It was released on July 29, 2008. It was produced by David Abeyta and Cody Braun of Reckless Kelly. Songwriting credits include Willy Braun, Randy Rogers, and Kevin Welch among others.

Naive (disambiguation)

Naive or naïve indicates having or showing a lack of experience, understanding or sophistication.

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Usage examples of "naive".

From the day he saw with his own eyes what the British had done at Lexington and Concord, Adams failed to understand how anyone could have any misconception or naive hope about what to expect from the British.

That Adams was never known to be involved in such activity struck some as a sign of how naive and behind the times he was.

It was easy to deduce that this man must have been wholly insane, but that he probably had a streak of perverse outward logic which made the naive Akeley - already prepared for such things by his folklore studies - believe his tale.

Do you honestly think that they will cleave to an eighteen-year-old as raw as freshly killed meat, as green as grass, as naive as an Apulian goatherd?

It wanted her to sit again at a piano, somewhere, anywhere, with a lighted cigaret on the music-rack, and sing her husky, naive little songs.

But enough to sense the shape of Zoe Fisher, a clonal baby raised in the hothouse politics of twenty-second-century Earth, young, fragile, terribly naive.

In many ways he is the first of the new naives, a Douanier Rousseau of the sexual perversions.

If she published such a work, however, the scholars of Valles and Erdin would dismiss her text as a naive attempt to euhemerize myth.

In the collection he parodies some of the naive but popular futurological scenarios, while hypothesizing on ideas whose extravagance extends beyond the scope of contemporary scientific theories.

The naive frankness of the age, both when it gloried in the flesh and when it reproved sin, gives a full-blooded complexion to that time that is lacking now.

Chekhov and a didactic one like Gorki, one of those naive and nervous Russian intellectuals who thought that a little patience and kindness with the miserable, half savage, unfathomable Russian peasant would do the trick.

Operation Greenpalm, Miamians would still be under the naive impression that their city could pay its bills.

The laughter of Democritus may suggest that naive viewers are part of the world he mocks or that sophisticated viewers are mockers themselves as well as objects of mockery.

Now Molotov had to work hard to keep from laughing at the poor, naive Lizard.

In spite of this somewhat naive monochromy the narrative merit of her stories is so great that they quite justify her place as a classic in the Ukrainian tradition.