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naïf
[ nah-eef ]
noun
- a naive or inexperienced person.
adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of naïf1
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Example Sentences
Yitzhak Rabin is a hero on the Israeli left (and a villain for much of the right) but he was no Peace Now naïf.
And by all accounts, she was not the naïf being led by an older and more powerful man.
No naïf or innocent, Dido knows plenty about ambition, and how heartless it can make a (hu)man.
Beads, too, are his naïf equivalent to Old Masters slathering on their layers of expensive oils.
Naïf, but it was just what I wanted to know, and dared not ask.
He is like a naïf teller of humorous anecdotes, who cannot keep his own smiles in order till he have done.
The naïf expression of this doctrine by a great borough proprietor, 'May I not do what I like with my own?'
The figures are placed at either end of the desk, with a certain naïf stiffness almost recalling the pose of a photographic group.
There is something very fascinating about the naïf belief that the neolithic axe is a genuine unadulterated thunderbolt.
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