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Definition of 'naive'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) naive
having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature; unsophisticated; ingenuous.

2.  naive
having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information; credulous.

3.  naive
marked by a simple style reflecting little or no formal training:
naive painting.

4.  naive
not having previously been the subject of a scientific experiment, as an animal.

Etymology: (1645–55; < F, fem. of naïf, OF naif natural, instinctive < L nātīvusnative)

Definition of 'naive'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) naive, naif
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"

2. (adj) primitive, naive
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"

3. (adj) naive
inexperienced

4. (adj) uninstructed, unenlightened, naive
lacking information or instruction
"lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"

5. (adj) uninitiate, uninitiated, naive
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"

Definition of 'naive'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) naive
having little experience of the bad things in the world; = innocent
She was young and naive and believed every word he said.; naively optimistic; Naively, we thought it couldn't happen to us.

Definition of 'naive'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) naive
having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks

Definitions of 'naive'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. naive
1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these coincide, but most designs aren't ‘really good’ in the appropriate sense). This trait is completely unrelated to general maturity or competence, or even competence at any other specific program. It is a sad commentary on the primitive state of computing that the natural opposite of this term is often claimed to be experienced user but is really more like cynical user.

2. Said of an algorithm that doesn't take advantage of some superior but advanced technique, e.g., the bubble sort. It may imply naivete on the part of the programmer, although there are situations where a naive algorithm is preferred, because it is more important to keep the code comprehensible than to go for maximum performance. “I know the linear search is naive, but in this case the list typically only has half a dozen items.” Compare brute force.

Translation of 'naive'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: simple and straightforward in one's way of thinking, speaking etc.
Arabic: ساذِج	Brazilian: cândido	German: naiv
Greek: αφελής	Spanish: cándido	Estonian: naiivne
Finnish: naiivi	French: naïf	Hungarian: naiv
Indonesian: polos	Icelandic: barnalegur; einlægur	Italian: ingenuo
Japanese: 素朴な	Korean: 고지식한	Lithuanian: paprastas, negudraujantis
Latvian: vienkāršs; aprobežots	Dutch: naïef	Norwegian: naiv, naturlig, likefram
Polish: prostoduszny	Persian: ساده و بى تكلف	Pashto: ساده او روان
Portuguese: cândido	Russian: наивный, простодушный	Slovak: naivný
Slovenian: naiven	Swedish: naiv, naturlig, okonstlad	Thai: ตรงไปตรงมา
Turkish: saf, bön, toy	Taiwanese: 單純質樸的	Chinese: 朴实的
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