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say it: nahy-EEV
naive is an adjective meaning "marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
inexperienced
lacking information or instruction
“lamentably unenlightened as to the laws”
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for naive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.