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Naively

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Adverb

1. naively

in a naive manner

Example Sentences:
'he believed, naively, that she would leave him her money'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Naively

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adjective
1. 
a. 
having or expressing innocence and credulity; ingenuous
b. 
(as collective noun; preceded by the)
only the naive believed him
2. 
artless or unsophisticated
3. 
lacking developed powers of analysis, reasoning, or criticism
a naive argument
4.  another word for primitive (sense 5)
noun
5. rare
a person who is naive, esp in artistic style
primitive (sense 10)

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Naively

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adjective
1. 
unaffectedly, or sometimes foolishly, simple; childlike; artless
2. 
not suspicious; credulous

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Naively

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adj.
1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
a. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
b. Unsuspecting or credulous: naive victims of the scam.
2. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast" (H.L. Mencken).
3. Not having experienced or been subjected to something, as:
a. Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.
b. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: patients naive to antipsychotic medication.
n.
One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.

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