naive

English - Turkish

Definition of naive in English Turkish dictionary

toy

O inanılmaz derecede toy. - She's unbelievably naive.

Tom o kadar toy olamaz. - Tom can't be that naive.

tecrübesizlik

{s} saf

Nasıl bu kadar saf olabilirsin? - How can you be so naive?

İnanılmaz şekilde safsın. - You are incredibly naive.

ağzı açık

çaylak

bön

deneyimsiz/saf/toy

naivetesaflık

bönlük

naivelysafça

denenmemiş

s., bak. naïve

(Pisikoloji, Ruhbilim) naif

Bazı erkekler bebekler kadar naifler. - Some men are as naïve as infants.

Gerçekten bu kadar naif misin? - Are you really that naive?

naif (resim)

sade

Ben saf değilim, sadece iyimserim. - I'm not naive, I'm just an optimist.

Related Terms

naïve

{s} naif (resim)

naïve

{s} toy, tecrübesiz

naive expection

naif expection

naive.

naif

naive realism

(Pisikoloji, Ruhbilim) naif gerçekçilik

naively

safça

Sami, Leyla'nın tüm sorularını safça cevapladı. - Sami naively answered all of Layla's questions.

drug-naïve

Uyuşturucuya naif

innocent, naive; novice, beginner

masum, saf, acemi, acemi

most naive

en naif

to be naive

saf olmak

naively

z., bak. naïvely

naively

saf saf

Sami, Leyla'nın bütün sorularını saf saf yanıtladı. - Sami naively answered all of Layla's questions.

naïvely

z. safça

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of naive in Turkish Turkish dictionary

Related Terms

naiv

çocuksu bir anlam ve yapım özelliği taşıyan, eğitim görmemiş amatör sanatçı ve bunların eserleri

English - English

Definition of naive in English English dictionary

Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement

Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!.

Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques

I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.

{s} lacking worldly wisdom, unsuspecting, gullible; childish, innocent, simple, unsophisticated

Primitive or popular, in the sense given those terms of an ability to communicate in time and space more readily than other types of literature

inexperienced The term is used to describe an individual who has never taken a certain drug or class of drugs (e g , AZT-naive, antiretroviral-naive), or to refer to an undifferentiated immune system cell

lacking sophistication 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

If you describe someone as naive, you think they lack experience and so expect things to be easy or people to be honest or kind. It's naive to think that teachers are always tolerant naive idealists Their view was that he had been politically naive. = unrealistic + naively na·ive·ly naively applying Western solutions to Eastern problems I thought, naively, that this would be a nine-to-five job. + naivety na·ive·ty I was alarmed by his naivety and ignorance of international affairs. not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen innocent (naïve, feminine of naïf, from nativus; NATIVE)

lacking sophistication

lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"

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"

unquestioning

Related Terms

naive falsificationism

An invalid scientific philosophy in which any single instance of refuting data is enough to falsify the entire claim

Under naive falsificationism, the birth control pill would be considered as ineffective since there are instances (3 in 1000) in which it does not work.

naive approach

immature attitude, approach that is overly simplified and lacks sophistication

naive art

also called outsider art Work of artists in sophisticated societies who lack or reject formal training. Naive artists, not to be confused with hobbyists, create with the same passion as trained artists but without formal knowledge of methods. Naive works are often extremely detailed, with a tendency toward the use of brilliant, saturated colours and a characteristic absence of perspective, which creates the illusion of figures floating in space. Well-known naive artists include Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses

naïvely

In a naïve manner

Users should not naïvely assume that learning to pronounce an East Asian language is all about learning to pronounce the individual ideographs.

drug-naive

Drug-naïve is the term used to describe patients or animals who are not under the influence of any psychotropic substances (drugs). This term usually refers to patients or animals undergoing drug-related testing, such as the effect of a certain drug on behaviour or cognitive ability

Naïve

naif

naively

in a naive manner; "he believed, naively, that she would leave him her money

naively

In a naive manner

naively

in a naive manner; "he believed, naively, that she would leave him her money"

naively

in a naive manner, unsuspectingly, in manner which is not worldly-wise, gullibly; childishly, innocently, unsophisticated

Hyphenation

na·ive

Turkish pronunciation

nayiv

Synonyms

aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant

Antonyms

experienced, leery, skeptical, wise

Pronunciation

/ˌnīˈēv/ /ˌnaɪˈiːv/

Etymology

() From French naïve, from Latin nativus (“native, natural”).