WORD: NAÏVE
MEANING:
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
b. Unsuspecting or credulous: naive victims of the scam.
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).
3. Not having experienced or been subjected to something, as:
a. Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.
b. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: patients naive to antipsychotic medication.
4. inexperienced, immature, simple
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the naive assumption that things can only get better
2. this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances
3. He is too naive for international cricket.
PRONOUNCE:
na·ive - नाइईव / नाईव
LINK: NAÏVE
MEANING:
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
b. Unsuspecting or credulous: naive victims of the scam.
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).
3. Not having experienced or been subjected to something, as:
a. Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.
b. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: patients naive to antipsychotic medication.
4. inexperienced, immature, simple
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. the naive assumption that things can only get better
2. this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances
3. He is too naive for international cricket.
PRONOUNCE:
na·ive - नाइईव / नाईव
LINK: NAÏVE
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