Usually means: Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgment.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word naive:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. naive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. naive: Merriam-Webster
  3. naive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. naive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. naive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. naive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Naive, naive: Wordnik
  8. naive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. naive: Wiktionary
  10. naive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. naive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. naive: Dictionary.com
  13. naive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. naive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Naive (Andy Grammer album), Naive (Dalek I Love You album), Naive (disambiguation), Naive (song), Naive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Naive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. naive: Rhymezone
  18. naive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. naive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. naive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. naive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. naive: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. naive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. naive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. naive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  4. naive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NAIVE: Acronym Finder

(Note: See naively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
adjective:  Not having been exposed to something.
adjective:  (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
adjective:  (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
noun:  A naive person; a greenhorn.

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