Sentences with naive
na·ive
N n - It's naive to think that teachers are always tolerant.
- Only the naive believed him
- Bruno's friendship with Shmuel is rendered with neat awareness of the paradoxes between children's naive egocentricity.
- Xavier Samuel plays the naive 17-year-old Gary.
- A naive argument
- She's so naive she believes everything she reads. He has a very naive attitude toward politics.
- The later paintings lack the naive charm of the earlier ones.
- Naive implies a genuine, innocent simplicity or lack of artificiality but sometimes connotes an almost foolish lack of worldly wisdom [his naive belief in the kindness of others]; ingenuous implies a frankness or straightforwardness that suggests the simplicity of a child [her ingenuous smile at my discomfiture]; artless suggests a lack of artificiality or guile that derives from indifference to the effect one has upon others [her artless beauty]; unsophisticated, like , naive, implies a lack of worldly wisdom resulting from a limited experience of life [an unsophisticated freshman]
- Valuable naive 19th-century American portrait paintings.