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Definition: Naif |
NaifAdjective1. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "naif" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Adj. Said of a gemstone having a true or natural luster when uncut; e.g.,of the natural, unpolished faces of a diamond crystal. Also spelled naife. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NAIF | English | National Association for Irish Freedom | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: NaifSynonym: naive (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sophisticated (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Naif |
| Non-English Usage: "Naif" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Indonesian (ingenuous), Turkish (starry eyed). |
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| "Eva" by Luis Alves Commentary: "A barrel with eva written on it and a naif design. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I really like to know when and where it's used, thanks :-)." |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "naif": faux-naif. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
naif | 26 |
pintura naif | 11 |
arte naif | 9 |
art naif | 7 |
card naif | 3 |
villeroy boch naif christmas | 3 |
villeroy boch naif | 3 |
design naif | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "naif"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | naiv (credulous, fond, ingenuous, lamb, naïve, simpleminded, untutored). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наивен (artless, fond, green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, jejune, naпve, silly, simple, undesigning, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed). (various references) | |
Dutch | naïef (naïf, naïve, naive), onnozel (dull, guiltless, innocent, insignificant, minor, naïf, naïve, stupid, trifling), ongekunsteld (naïf, naïve, naive, natural, unforced), argeloos (guileless, innocent, inoffensive, naïf, naïve, naive). (various references) | |
Esperanto | naiva (na@f, na@ve, naive). (various references) | |
French | naïf (naïf, naïve, naive). (various references) | |
Greek | απλοϊκόσ (naοve, simple, simpleminded), αφελήσ (artless, ingenuous, naοve, simple, simpleminded). (various references) | |
Hungarian | naiv (blithe, green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, innocent, naïve, naive, pushover, untutored). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aifnay.(various references) | |
Romanian | naiv (artless, credulous, deceivable, dupable, dupe, green, gull, gullible, naïve, puerile, silly, simple minded, simpleton, sincere, verdant). (various references) | |
Russian | наивный (innocent, naпve, naive, simple, untutored). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | naivan (artless, dupable, ingenuous, naďve, starry eyed). (various references) | |
Swedish | naiv (green, ingenuous, innocent, naïf, naïve, naive, obvious, simple, simplistic, unsophisticated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "naif": naifs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fain. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-n" | |
-1 letter: ain, ani, fan, fin. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, fa, if, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-n" | |
+1 letter: fagin, faint, final, infra, naifs. | |
+2 letters: affine, facing, fadein, fading, fagins, fainer, faints, faking, famine, faming, fanion, farina, faring, fating, faxing, faying, fazing, fiance, finale, finals, finial, firman, flavin, funkia, fusain, infall, infamy, infant, infare, nazify, unfair. | |
+3 letters: affiant, affinal, affined, affines, afghani, antefix, antifat, antiflu, antifur, baffing, barfing, caffein, carnify, chafing, daffing, damnify, dandify, defiant, fabling, faciend, facings, faction, fadeins, fadging, fadings, fagging, faience, failing, fainest, fainted, fainter, faintly, fairing, falling, famines, fanatic, fancied, fancier, fancies, fancify, fancily, fanions, fanlike, fannies, fanning, fantail, fanwise, fanzine, farcing, farding, farinas, farinha, farming, fascine, fashing, fashion, fasting, fatling, fatting, fawnier, fawning, fearing, feasing, feazing, fiancee, fiances, finable, finagle, finales, finalis, finally, finance, finback, finials, finical, finmark, fireman, firepan, firmans, flaking, flaming, flaring, flavine, flavins, flawing, flaying, foaling, foaming, folacin, fontina, framing, frantic, fraying, funfair, funkias, fusains, fustian, gaffing, gainful, hafnium, hafting, indraft, infalls, infancy, infanta, infante, infants, infarct, infares, infauna, inflame, inflate, infract, ingraft, insofar, leafing, liftman, loafing, magnify, painful, panfish, rafting, ratfink, refrain, ruffian, tailfan, tiffany, unfaith, uniface, waffing, wafting, waifing, yaffing. | |
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