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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



... head; with all the naif unconsciousness of a child, she had all the manner of the veille cour; together they made ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... continually vanish before humour or mere fun; while having no deep root in life or interests in common with the settled Anglo-Saxon citizen, he cannot fail to appear at times to the latter as a near relation to Mephistopheles. But his "mockery" is as accidental and naif as that of Jewish Young Germany is keen and deliberate; and the former differs from the latter as the drollery of Abraham a Santa Clara differs from the brilliant ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland
... I needed an assistant, and observing that Browne's two sketches of the Showman's letter and the Mormons had made him well known, invited him to take a place in our office. He was a shrewd, naif, but at the same time modest and unassuming young man. He was a native of Maine, but familiar with the West. Quiet as he seemed, in three weeks he had found out everything in New York. I could illustrate this by a very extraordinary fact, but I have ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland


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


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