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Meaning of naive

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  naive
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             {naive}, {naif}] [ant: {sophisticated}]
      2: 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" [syn: {primitive}, {naive}]
      3: inexperienced
      4: lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened
         as to the laws" [syn: {uninstructed}, {unenlightened},
         {naive}]
      5: 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" [syn: {uninitiate},
         {uninitiated}, {naive}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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