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    naive
    [ adj ]
    1. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

    2. <adj.all>
      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
    3. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

    4. <adj.all>
      primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
    5. inexperienced

    6. <adj.all>
    7. lacking information or instruction

    8. <adj.all>
      lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
    9. not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

    10. <adj.all>
      it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes
      he took part in the experiment as a naive subject


    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.
    [PJC]


    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.
    [PJC]

    1. A Coast Guard officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said Friday that state officials were naive or uninformed if they believed a spill as large as the one in Prince William Sound could be cleaned up quickly.
    2. New York-based Lynch, Jones & Ryan, a soft-dollar firm, called the SEC action a "naive" response in favor of soft-dollar critics.
    3. Technical innovations plus growing international economic integration may not have the same ring to them as visions of a New Jerusalem or classless society but these old idealisms were hopeless and naive.
    4. To fund outreach in isolation and hope that it alone will accomplish major improvements in the use or prenatal services is naive and wasteful." The panel concluded that the solution is action rather than more study.
    5. He said he could not make "an unequivocal commitment" and told the hearing he "would be naive to do that" in light of expected disagrements within the scientific community on what should constitute a clean horeline.
    6. The crackdown was generally tolerated and to some extent supported by newspaper editorials and the public, which views the students' demands for immediate reunification as naive and dangerous.
    7. "Anybody who thinks the governor is not looking at 1992, in spite of what he's said, is extraordinarily naive," said Sen. Dudley J. Emick Jr., a fellow Democrat.
    8. "I think my whole generation, I guess we're kind of naive.
    9. We can't be naive enough to believe that California is the only state where such finagling has occurred.
    10. "I made a very naive young-man's mistake.
    11. Inequalities are forever," Guthrie wrote recently in Nieman Reports. "The revisionists' wide-eyed discovery of them in the West strikes me as a bit naive.
    12. "People sometimes have the idea that they can buy a $99 system and make lots of money," he says, but that is naive.
    13. It would also be naive to assume the government will be content to tax new finds at 33 per cent if discoveries like those west of Shetland prove to be large and very profitable.
    14. "I'd be naive to say people aren't panicked," says Bruce S. Loeb, a first-year Columbia Business School student whose 100-letter search has yet to yield an offer.
    15. Poindexter tackled intricate international problems with the naive certitude that such problems have quick and tidy solutions.
    16. 'It would be naive to say that reducing pollution always pays,' says Mr Jurgen Muller, executive board member for the environment at Sandoz. Responsible Care also requires changes in organisational culture.
    17. In the world of politics he was similarly bold, sometimes betraying a naive understanding of political correctness.
    18. I was left with the impression that many also followed the Dickens character in their hopes for the future in the perhaps naive belief that, as with the 1992 devaluation 'something will turn up'. I hope those who think that way are right.
    19. He sought to allay fears that U.S. farm policy was going to be dictated by the Uruguay Round in Geneva, but said it would be naive to think it should not be affected.
    20. Comity as a basis for contracting would be considered naive even in domestic transactions, yet it is the basic international legal guideline available to settle disputes.
    21. Samuel was perhaps naive in believing that his own overruling sense of justice and abilities could relegate his Jewishness to irrelevance in Palestine. What about the Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who could not be accused of naivety in any sense?
    22. Western colleagues admit irritation but say the Graphisoft approach can inspire creative solutions. Ignorance can also underpin a naive confidence.
    23. A 1483 Nuremberg Bible depicts a naive mermaid, merman and their little merdog paddling alongside Noah's Ark.
    24. And she says her naive character in the smash film with Patrick Swayze was really an acting reach for her.
    25. There is something touchingly naive in the Cadbury Committee's faith in a self-regulatory system of corporate governance.
    26. It is naive to think that the U.S., once it agrees to supply crude oil to the Pacific-rim countries, would be able to withdraw its oil from a trading partner in the event of an oil crisis.
    27. Asked about Scowcroft's view, Shevardnadze said it would be "naive" of the Kremlin to try to disrupt the Western alliance, and he said the Soviet measure was aimed at balancing East-West defenses.
    28. "Nathan is a decent and naive man, (but) the naive men don't understand whom they are dealing with," Rabin said on Israel radio.
    29. "Nathan is a decent and naive man, (but) the naive men don't understand whom they are dealing with," Rabin said on Israel radio.
    30. The latest report by the National Association of Purchasing Management, in which members overwhelmingly say the economy will improve next year, was said to be naive.
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