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Naif

noun

A naive or inexperienced person.

adjective

Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience. Synonym: naive. "The naive assumption that things can only get better" , "This naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"

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"Naif" Quotes from Famous Books

... amazed at the naif simple jealousy that swept over him at the sight. She had danced with Conroy twice already—he ought to be more considerate than to bring the girl into notice that way—a chump like Charlie Conroy, what would he understand of such a nature as Johnnie Consadine's? Before he fully realized ...

— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke

... II, in 1660, mark one of the most decisive changes in English life and literature. The preceding half century had really been transitional, and during its course, as we have seen, the Elizabethan adventurous energy and half-naif greatness of spirit had more and more disappeared. With the coming of Charles II the various tendencies which had been replacing these forces seemed to crystallize into their almost complete opposites. This ...

— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... errors of Dulcin de Novare and his wife Marguerite, into the filth of abbe Beccarelli, and the abominations of Segarelli of Parma, who, on pretext of becoming a child the better to symbolize the simple, naif love of the Paraclete, had himself diapered and slept on the breast of ...

— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans

... again, "that was a dear, blasphemous young whelp! You know, I rather liked him. Bless the soul of you, I could as little have rebuked the lad as I could punish the guiltless indecence of a babe—he was that shockingly naif!" ...

— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson

... with all the naif unconsciousness of a child, she had all the manner of the veille cour; together ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

... grave and sad, as he stood listening. It was possible to hear almost all the prayer through the red baize door, and the words, hackneyed though they were, and almost absurd in their pious sing-song, had a naif impressiveness and, to the listener, ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird