The word naive in a sentence

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(1) It’s naive to think that teachers are always tolerant.

(2) Jim can be so naive sometimes.

(3) It’s naive of you to believe he’ll do what he says.

(4) It would be naive of us to think that football is only a game.

(5) I can’t believe you were so naive as to trust him!

(6) She was very naive to believe that he’d stay with her.

(7) He smiled to think how naive he used to be.

(8) Her paintings have a naive, dreamlike quality.

(9) He regarded the move as politically naive.

(10) Their view was that he had been politically naive.

(11) They were naive and easily misled.

(12) Her naive attitude provoked their derision.

(13) Their approach to life is refreshingly naive.

(14) He’s stunningly naive for a person of his age.

(15) Her speech was naive and ill-timed.

(16) Her rosy view of life abroad seems rather naive.

(17) I wish she’d wake up ! She’s so naive!

(18) He was naive and easily influenced by his friends. Sentencedict.com

(19) I know I was a naive fool to trust him but he is a real charmer who totally took me in.

(20) Don’t be so naive as to be taken in by their lies.

(21) The drama takes an idealistic, even a naive view of the subject.

(22) It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.

(23) If I was younger or more naive, the criticism would have destroyed me.

(24) She is so naive that she believes everything he tells her.

(25) You weren’t so naive as to believe him, were you?

(26) They make the naive assumption that because it’s popular it must be good.

(27) It was a little naive of you to think that they would listen to your suggestions.

(28) Environmentalists have criticized the plan as naive.

(29) Please don’t pretend to be good to me. I’m so naive that I will take it seriously.

(30) Her colourful oils and works on paper have a naive, dreamlike quality.

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1. When she was young and naive , she had dreamed of such a job. …
2. You’re a naive little child. …
3. Oh, so you are still naive enough to hope he’ll stick around. …
4. Almost all of them stared with naive , childlike curiosity at Pierre’s white hat and green swallow-tail coat.

How do you use naive?

Naive sentence example

Is naive a good word?

Naive is a negative word. In and of itself, it’s neither and would probably be taken as negative a little more than half the time. But that’s not bad. However, common use is either that of either someone that thinks they are better than you of as a partronizing comment.

Whats the opposite of naive?

Antonyms: experient, sophisticated, intelligent, refined, learned, urbane, worldly-wise, svelte, blase, worldly, informed, conditioned, experienced, well-informed, polished, trained. Synonyms: uninitiated, primitive, unenlightened, naif, uninitiate, uninstructed.

Does naive mean weak?

Being naïve does not mean you’re weak or stupid. It is quite the opposite, really. But, rarely do we make the time to contemplate this other notion, which means that you’re more than willing to extend kindness and compassion long before you make a judgment call.

What does naive mean in a relationship?

Sometimes, people may be called naive if they believe that they can «fix» others by helping them, loving them, believing in them, etc. This is particularly common in romantic relationships. To become less naive, acknowledge that each person is responsible for his or her own behavior and actions.

Is naive positive or negative?

Naive has a more neutral connotation and generally indicates a person who isn’t familiar with the way the world works. Naive can sometimes even have a positive connotation and mean someone who hasn’t been jaded by the negative realities of the world. Naive people are likely to be trusting or unsophisticated.

Can you call someone naive?

Someone might call you “naive” if you are overly trusting or lack experience in the world. Naive people are often so trusting of others around them that their natural innocence results in them getting cheated or hurt. Naiveté isn’t always a bad thing; it may help you be more optimistic and entrepreneurial.

Why is someone naive?

Someone might call you “naive” if you are overly trusting or lack experience in the world. Naive people are often so trusting of others around them that their natural innocence results in them getting cheated or hurt.

What does the word Nieve mean?

1 chiefly dialectal : a person’s hand. 2 chiefly dialectal : fist. nieve. noun (2)

Are babies naive?

Recent research shows that babies are endowed with a sense of “naive physics” and “naive psychology”. They think of objects largely as adults do and expect objects to obey the laws of physics, eg babies are surprised if you remove the support beneath a block and it remains suspended in mid-air.

What is synonyms for naive?

synonyms for naive

Is ignorant same as naive?

Ignorant means lacking knowledge but has negative connotations. Naive means lacking wisdom, experience and judgement and has fewer negative connotations.

Can naive be a compliment?

Naive: A person showing lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement. Many people use it as a compliment of sorts.

What is the difference between innocent and naive?

Both “innocent” and “naïve” are characteristics that show a lack of the capacity to injure. “Innocent” refers to inexperience and the absence of knowledge about worldly or evil things while “naïve” refers to unconcern about mundane things or the reaction of people to his actions or personality.

Are naive and oblivious the same thing?

What does dare to be naive mean?

It is the willingness to examine every assumption, including those that we hold most dear, that opens the gate to the type of innovation we need. The act of daring to be naive is a rigorous discipline. Only with practice will we realise how constrained our thinking really is.

What part of speech is naive?

NAIVE (adjective) definition and synonyms. Macmillan Dictionary.

How do I stop being so naive?

How To Stop Being Naive: 11 Highly Effective Tips

What is the difference between simple and naive?

Naive in a sentence

Here below you will find several sentences that illustrate how to use the word naive in a sentence.

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   What’s the point in being naive?

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   She described Nina as highly naive.

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   They are both naive about sex and technology.

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   The naive animals did not imitate the experts.

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   The naive solution to the problem is as follows:.

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   He was sometimes vain, naive, immature, and egocentric.

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   Penelope’s story uses simple and deliberately naive prose.

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   There was a naive quality about them and nothing too complex.».

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   As for his lack of experience: «I was naive about the ocean, basically.

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    However, unlike Solid Snake, Naked Snake was a rookie and thus acted more naive.

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    Rastignac, as the naive young man from the country, seeks in these worlds a new home.

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    Edwards writes «the quality might be described as naive, primitive, or even folk art».

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    Chapin called the musical «a naive, old fashioned, anti-feminist story with a truly great score.

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    O’Brien later said he had not realised the band’s importance to EMI: «That probably sounds really naive.

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    In a 1931 interview, his naive revelations of incompetence and extravagance in the studios caused a furore.

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    Reviewing the show, The Times thought Formby was «more than ever the mechanized perfection of naive jollity.

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    Wilfried Keutsch, a modern scholar of the 18th century, has criticized Trimmer’s projects as naive and moralistic:.

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    The audience appeared unresponsive to the character, so he changed it mid-performance to that of a naive Yorkshire man.

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    Elverum elected to include this as to not have «the album to come out and be naive to what was happening in our world».

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    She played Rani, a naive girl who embarks on her honeymoon alone after her fiancé (Rajkummar Rao) calls off their wedding.

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    Fränger saw the figures in the garden as peaceful, naive, and innocent in expressing their sexuality, and at one with nature.

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    How can we eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth without being naive about the intentions of other governments?

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    Le Père Goriot is also recognized as a bildungsroman, wherein a naive young person matures while learning the ways of the world.

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    Wallace was an intelligent but naive youth trapped in the drug trade, and Poot a randy young man happy to follow rather than lead.

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    Sparrow fails in his attempt to take over the ship in a mutiny against Blackbeard and save the naive Angelica from her evil father.

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    In his early films, he played the young naive hero sure of his moral position and trusting in the triumph of simple virtues (The Virginian).

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    Houllier defended his tactics after the match, stating: «If I’d gone out and attacked and lost by three goals, you would be calling me naive.

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    Masashi Kishimtoto describes the older incarnations of Naruto as a naive idealist due to how he continuously avoids repeating previous mistakes.

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    Michael Kennedy has referred to Tippett’s «open‐eyed, even naive outlook on the world», while accepting the technical sophistication of his music.

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    Chebotareva wrote that Olga’s love for him was «pure, naive, without hope» and that she tried to avoid revealing her feelings to the other nurses.

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    There were so many naive people around who could have been taken in.» He increased the Labour Club’s membership by three quarters by the time he left.

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    Povinelli and O’Neill, for example, found that trained chimpanzees were unable to teach naive chimpanzees to cooperate on a Crawford-like box-pulling task.

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    Kenyatta and his government were anti-communist, and in June 1965 he warned that «it is naive to think that there is no danger of imperialism from the East.

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    In addition, his inexperience led to defeat in one warm-up match that the MCC could have drawn, and commentators dismissed him as naive and easy-going on the field.

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    Urbane, well-spoken and popular with his opponents and the public, he was seen by his teammates as a disciplinarian and his natural optimism was often seen as naive.

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    During promotion of the film, she noted of her portrayal of the character: «I think she’s in such dire straits that all she has are these kind of naive, fierce hopes.

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    By September, Grant, who was naive in matters of finance, was convinced that a low gold price would help farmers, and the sale of gold for September was not increased.

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    He can do that naive thing but he can also do possessed.'» In preparation for his role Gyllenhaal met Graysmith, and videotaped him to study his mannerisms and behavior.

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    These and later hand-reared birds were found to be too tame and naive; they would land on people’s shoulders, or near cats and mongooses, which subsequently killed them.

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    But he was naive, and having been brought up with people to advise him all his life until December 1936 he was hardly competent or equipped to deal with men like Hitler.

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    Dinesh Raheja took note of Zinta’s «casual and appealing acting», and Sita Menon described her as «beautiful and vibrant, wavering between endearingly naive and confused».

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    The naive expectation for asymptotically flat spacetime symmetries might be simply to extend and reproduce the symmetries of flat spacetime of special relativity, viz., the Poincaré group.

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    It is the result of a naive sensibility rather like that of the douanier Rousseau [Henri Rousseau]; it does not lack intelligence, because it is a thought-out, a constructed piece of work.

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    Goodman is a naive and optimistic Candide-like character, oblivious to the corruption and degeneration around him, and whose stories were vehicles for social satire and pop culture parody.

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    His ideas are sometimes said to be superficial; they were characterized as childish in the 1960s, naive in the 1970s, poorly reasoned in the 1980s and 1990s, and overly simple in the 2000s.

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    Poehler portrayed the lead character, Leslie Knope, the naive but well-meaning, eager-to-please deputy director of the parks and recreation department of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.

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    Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac.

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    Everson said: «It’s a colorful, naive and zestful film in which the overall ingenuousness quite disarms criticism of plot absurdity or such production shortcomings as the too-obvious studio «exteriors» ..

- наивный, простодушный

naive notion — естественное представление; наивное понятие 
naive question — наивный вопрос 
naïve remark — наивное замечание 
naïve child — простодушное дитя 
naïve poetry — наивная /безыскусная/ поэзия 

- простоватый, недалёкий; легковерный

naïve faith — наивная вера 
it was very naïve of you to believe him — с вашей стороны было наивно /неумно/ поверить ему 
it would be naïve to assume — было бы наивностью считать 

- неподготовленный, неинформированный

computer-naive — неподготовленный к работе с вычислительной машиной; не знакомый с ЭВМ 
we need naïve people to take this test — нам нужно, чтобы этому тесту подверглись люди, не имеющие представления о его предмете 

- первичный, исходный; не подвергавшийся (чему-л.)

experimentally naïve mice — мыши, не бывшие в эксперименте 

- не подвергавшийся действию наркотиков; не пробовавший наркотиков

Мои примеры

It’s naive to trust everyone. 

Наивно всем доверять.

Jim can be so naive sometimes. 

Джим иногда такой наивный.

That was naive of you. 

Ты повёл себя наивно.

You are naive to believe them. 

Какая наивность с твоей стороны верить им!

I had naively imagined that he was in love with me. 

Я наивно предположила, что он был в меня влюблен.

The plan seems a little naive. 

План кажется немного наивным.

Her conclusions are muzzy and naive. 

Её выводы сформулированы нечётко и наивны.

She asked a lot of naive questions. 

Она задавала много наивных вопросов.

I was young and naive at the time, and I didn’t think anything bad could happen to me. 

Я тогда был молод и наивен, и думал, что ничего плохого со мной случиться не может.

If you’re naive enough to believe him, you’ll believe anyone. 

Если ты настолько наивен, что ему веришь, то ты поверишь кому угодно.

He took part in the experiment as a naive subject. 

Он принял участие в эксперименте в качестве «наивного испытуемого». (т.е. испытуемого, который не знает настоящих целей эксперимента)

It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away. 

Было бы наивно думать, что это сразу решит все проблемы данной территории.

…yet another short-lived utopian community that was the brainchild of a naive fantast…  

…pundits who should have known better effused endlessly about this idealistic but naive senator…  

…the fortune hunter’s insinuating attentions were having their intended effect on the naive heiress…  

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Don’t be so naive, Morgan.