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Naif

adjective
1.
Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience.  Synonym: naive.  "The naive assumption that things can only get better" , "This naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"






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"Naif" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought self-evidently sound and just. Americans were surprised to find how completely it was overlooked in the contemporaneous European discussion—how general was the sympathy with the Spanish request for arbitration, and how naif the apparently genuine surprise at the instant and unqualified refusal to consider it. Even English voices joined in the chorus of encouraging approval that, from every quarter in Europe, greeted the formal Spanish appeal for an opportunity to try over in another forum ...
— Problems of Expansion - As Considered In Papers and Addresses • Whitelaw Reid



Words linked to "Naif" :   credulous, fleeceable, uninformed, naive, wide-eyed, simple-minded, unworldly, innocent, simple, childlike, sophisticated, unsophisticated, gullible, green, inexperienced person, dewy-eyed, round-eyed, ingenuous



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