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Naif   Listen
adjective
Naif  adj.  
1.
Having a true natural luster without being cut; applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
2.
Naïve; as, a naïf remark.





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"Naif" Quotes from Famous Books



... the command of the army, and so forth, and fully admitted that he was bound in honour to play his part effectively; but he was equally convinced that he was subject to nothing outside of his sense of honour. His duties were also his rights. The naif expression of this doctrine by a great borough proprietor, 'May I not do what I like with my own?' was ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen


Words linked to "Naif" :   naive, green, inexperienced person, unworldly, round-eyed, simple, uninformed, ingenuous, credulous, childlike


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