naif

1. 1.

   a naive or inexperienced person

   Broaderinnocent

1. 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”

   Synonymsnaive

   Similarchildlikecredulousfleeceableinnocentsimple-mindedunsophisticated

Other forms of naif

plural

naifs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about naif

What does naif mean?

naif means "a naive or inexperienced person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in naif?

naif has 1 syllable: naif.

What is another word for naif?

Close synonyms include naive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is naif a common word?

naif is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.