NAIF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naif mean? 

• NAIF (noun)
  The noun NAIF has 1 sense:

1. a naive or inexperienced person

  Familiarity information: NAIF used as a noun is very rare.

• NAIF (adjective)
  The adjective NAIF has 1 sense:

1. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

  Familiarity information: NAIF used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAIF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A naive or inexperienced person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("naif" is a kind of...):

inexperienced person; innocent (a person who lacks knowledge of evil)

• NAIF (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

Synonyms:

naif; naive

Context example:

this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances

Similar:

childlike; dewy-eyed; round-eyed; simple; wide-eyed (exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity)

credulous (showing a lack of judgment or experience)

fleeceable; green; gullible (naive and easily deceived or tricked)

ingenuous; innocent (lacking in sophistication or worldliness)

simple-minded (lacking subtlety and insight)

unsophisticated; unworldly (not wise in the ways of the world)

Also:

credulous (disposed to believe on little evidence)

uninformed (not informed; lacking in knowledge or information)

unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)