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naive

adj
/naɪˈiːv/UK/naɪˈiv/US/nɑˈjiʋ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïve, feminine form of naïf, from Latin nātīvus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.

  1. derived from nātīvus
  2. borrowed from naïve

Definitions

  1. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement

    Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

    • I am sixteen going on seventeen, I know that I'm naive

  2. Not having been exposed to something.

    • Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]

  3. Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Intuitive

      Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

      • 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.

    2. A naive person

      A naive person; a greenhorn.

      • As a seasoned woman—of nineteen—I felt it was my place to tell each of these naïves that such plans were easier made than followed.
      • In other words, they'd buy securities from these naives for 55 and sell them similar securities for 65. In plain English, they'd pay $550 per $1,000 bond and turn right around and sell them similar stuff for $650.

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Derived

bionaive, chemonaive, drug-naive, drug naive, immunologically naive, immunonaive, naive falsificationism, naively, naiveness, naive realist, naivism, naivist, semi-naive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at naive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at naive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at naive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA