Naïve can be categorized as an adjective.
Adjective |
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| naive - 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" | ||
| naive - inexperienced | ||
| naïve - not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject" | ||
| naïve - of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking" | ||
| naïve - lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adj. | I'm surprised that you're so naïve. | |
| 2. | adj. | She is unbelievably naïve. | |
| 3. | adj. | There is no such thing as a naïve fox, nor a man without faults. | |
| 4. | adj. | A naïve fox does not exist. Likewise, there is no such thing as a man without faults. | |
| 5. | adj. | Lyusya is a very naïve and credulous girl. | |
| 6. | adj. | Mary is a naïve young actress. | |
| 7. | adj. | I like Maria, but she's very naïve. | |
| 8. | adj. | Some men are as naïve as infants. | |
| 9. | adj. | She is completely naïve and believes everything people tell her. | |
| 10. | adj. | Tom is unbelievably naïve. | |
| 11. | adj. | Tom was either being naïve or disingenuous. | |
| 12. | adj. | The word "stupid" means to be at once ignorant and naïve. | |
| 13. | adj. | It's no surprise he's done that to you. You're too naïve! | |
| 14. | adj. | When you analyse what he says, it seems somewhat naïve and simplistic. | |
| 15. | adj. | Not until after they had passed beyond the best work of the First Men in science and philosophy did the Second Men discover the remains of the great stone library in Siberia. A party of engineers happened upon it while they were preparing to sink a shaft for subterranean energy. The tablets were broken, disordered, weathered. Little by little, however, they were reconstructed and interpreted, with the aid of the pictorial dictionary. The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable. So little of the old world had survived the volcanic epoch that the Second Men had failed hitherto to get a clear picture of their predecessors. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| I'm surprised that you're so naïve. | |
| She is unbelievably naïve. | |
| There is no such thing as a naïve fox, nor a man without faults. | |
| A naïve fox does not exist. Likewise, there is no such thing as a man without faults. | |
| Lyusya is a very naïve and credulous girl. | |
| Mary is a naïve young actress. | |
| I like Maria, but she's very naïve. | |
| Some men are as naïve as infants. | |
| She is completely naïve and believes everything people tell her. | |
| Tom is unbelievably naïve. | |
| Tom was either being naïve or disingenuous. | |
| The word "stupid" means to be at once ignorant and naïve. | |
| It's no surprise he's done that to you. You're too naïve! | |
| When you analyse what he says, it seems somewhat naïve and simplistic. | |
| Not until after they had passed beyond the best work of the First Men in science and philosophy did the Second Men discover the remains of the great stone library in Siberia. A party of engineers happened upon it while they were preparing to sink a shaft for subterranean energy. The tablets were broken, disordered, weathered. Little by little, however, they were reconstructed and interpreted, with the aid of the pictorial dictionary. The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable. So little of the old world had survived the volcanic epoch that the Second Men had failed hitherto to get a clear picture of their predecessors. | |