naivena‧ive /naɪˈiːv/ ●○○ adjective 
a naive young girl Jim can be so naive sometimes.it is naive to think/suppose/assume etc It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.—naively adverb: I had naively imagined that he was in love with me.—naivety /naɪˈiːvəti/ (also naiveté /naɪˈiːvəteɪ/) noun [uncountable]: dangerous political naivety
WORD ORIGINnaive
Origin:
1600-1700 French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Latin nativus; ➔ NATIVE1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He held onto the naive belief that Marxism would solve all the world's problems.
- I was so naive - I believed everything the military told me.
- Stewart plays the naive new senator.
- We're not naive anymore like we were in the 60s.
- Is anyone in domestic or foreign government stupid enough or naive enough to believe this?
- It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence.
- She struggled to analyze whether this was a naive point of view; or worthless cynicism.
- Talking with Bimal I realized how wrong - or naive - I had been.
- Yet only a naive observer would say that his son is not powerful.
Longman Language Activatornot knowing very much about life, people, and the world
· She's too young and inexperienced to go abroad on her own.· I'm not going to take orders from some foolish inexperienced young man.
having very little experience of the world, especially because you are young so that you do not realize that some people might want to cause others harm: · He's so innocent that anyone can take advantage of him.· Don't get her mixed up in your plan - she's just an innocent girl.
having little experience of life, so that you believe that life is simple and are too ready to trust people: · I was so naive - I believed everything the military told me.· He held onto the naive belief that Marxism would solve all the world's problems.
having little knowledge or experience of clever, fashionable things, and showing this by the way you talk and behave: · When she arrived in the city, she was just an unsophisticated country girl.· I felt very ignorant and unsophisticated when I was with my brother and his university friends.
having very little experience of an activity or job: · Even when I was 21 I was so green, I had no idea that my best friend was on drugs.· Pike was a grizzled combat veteran in charge of fifteen green recruits.
someone who does not have much experience, and can easily be deceived: · Stop worrying about Lucia - she's no babe in the woods anymore.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen: It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.· I'd say she's a bit of a fanatic, and just as naive as the rest of them.· Standard economic theory would dismiss the effort as naive and counterproductive.· But to regard him as naive rather than evil is to miss the point.· However, it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so.· A radical criminology which appears to deny this will be seen as naive and rightly rejected.· Students objected to being portrayed as naive, immature and easily-led innocents.· Could anyone be as naive as Jett appeared to be?· I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison.
· This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death.· Many, if not most, of their theories seem rather naive, even childlike, today.· It is an attempt, perhaps a rather naive attempt, to apply information theory to decoration.· Certainly, more modern uses of the survey method have disregarded some of the rather naive methodological assumptions of the early surveys.· The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive, rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment.
· This is where you are so naive.· The explanations in the official report are so naive that they can not be taken seriously.· At the time the criticism in the press seemed irrelevant because it was so naive.· Realities were not so simple, men neither so cynical, nor so naive.
· It's almost too naive to ask!
· Manufacturers wrote their own copy and it appears very naive now.· She was beautiful and sweet but very naive.· And even though I'd had the baby, I was still very naive.· I must have been very naive.· He admitted he had been very naive when he began giving away his fortune six years ago.· I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast.· Kattina was either a practised inquisitor, or very naive.
NOUN· This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death.· This is, clearly, a pretty naive view, even of a direct response campaign.· This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned.· However, such naive views, as we shall see later, were to be proved incorrect.· She uses the vignettes to explode a naive view of romantic fulfilment in marriage.
a naive young girl Jim can be so naive sometimes.it is naive to think/suppose/assume etc It would be naive to think that this could solve all the area’s problems straight away.—naively adverb: I had naively imagined that he was in love with me.—naivety /naɪˈiːvəti/ (also naiveté /naɪˈiːvəteɪ/) noun [uncountable]: dangerous political naivety