1. naive

adjective. ['ˌnaɪˈiːv'] marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.

Rhymes with Naive

• preconceive
• misconceive
• satanjeev
• misperceive
• disbelieve
• vancleve
• tel-aviv
• maharive
• interweave
• interleave
• sanjiv
• retrieve
• reprieve
• mccleave
• conceive
• relieve
• receive
• rajiv
• perceive
• laneve
• geneve
• deceive
• believe
• aggrieve
• stieve
• steve
• sleeve
• shreve
• shreeve
• kleve

How do you pronounce naive?

Pronounce naive as naɪiv.

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Sentences with naive

1. Adjective
“To be naive sometimes takes you a long way,” says Slinning.

Quotes about naive

1. With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
- Joyce Giraud

2. Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
- Reince Priebus

3. With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them.
- Joyce Giraud

2. naive

adjective. ['ˌnaɪˈiːv'] lacking information or instruction.

3. naive

adjective. ['ˌnaɪˈiːv'] not initiated; deficient in relevant experience.

4. naive

adjective. ['ˌnaɪˈiːv'] of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style.

5. naive

adjective. ['ˌnaɪˈiːv'] inexperienced.