Usually means: Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgment.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. naive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. naive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. naive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. naive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. naive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Naive, naive: Wordnik
  7. naive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. naive: Wiktionary
  9. naive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. naive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. naive: Dictionary.com
  12. naive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. naive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Naive (Andy Grammer album), Naive (Dalek I Love You album), Naive (disambiguation), Naive (song), Naive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Naive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. naive: Rhymezone
  17. naive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. naive: Free Dictionary
  19. naive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. naive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  2. naive: Legal dictionary

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

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  3. naive: Medical dictionary

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  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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