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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
Hanna Rosin

Meaning of "naively" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NAIVELY

naively  [naɪˈiːvlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NAIVELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Naively is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES NAIVELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of naively in the English dictionary

The first definition of naively in the dictionary is in such a way as to have or express innocence and credulity; ingenuously. Other definition of naively is in a way which is artless or unsophisticated. Naively is also in a way which develops powers of analysis, reasoning, or criticism.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NAIVELY


aggressively
əˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
alternatively
ɔːlˈtɜːnətɪvlɪ
collectively
kəˈlektɪvlɪ
comparatively
kəmˈpærətɪvlɪ
cumulatively
ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪvlɪ
effectively
ɪˈfɛktɪvlɪ
exclusively
ɪkˈskluːsɪvlɪ
extensively
ɪkˈstɛnsɪvlɪ
inductively
ɪnˈdʌktɪvlɪ
lively
ˈlaɪvlɪ
lovely
ˈlʌvlɪ
negatively
ˈneɡətɪvlɪ
positively
ˈpɒzɪtɪvlɪ
progressively
prəˈɡrɛsɪvlɪ
relatively
ˈrɛlətɪvlɪ
respectively
rɪˈspɛktɪvlɪ
selectively
sɪˈlɛktɪvlɪ
steevely
ˈstiːvlɪ
stievely
ˈstiːvlɪ
suavely
ˈswɑːvlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NAIVELY

nailfile
nailfold
nailhead
nain
nainsell
nainsook
Naipaul
naira
Nairnshire
Nairobi
NAIRU
Naismith
Naismith´s rule
naissant
naive
naive realism
naiveness
naiveties
naivety
naivist

WORDS THAT END LIKE NAIVELY

actively
bravely
collaboratively
competitively
comprehensively
consecutively
creatively
deceptively
defensively
definitively
excessively
expansively
impressively
instinctively
intensively
intuitively
objectively
qualitatively
quantitatively
successively
tentatively

Synonyms and antonyms of naively in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «naively» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NAIVELY

Find out the translation of naively to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of naively from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «naively» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

天真
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ingenuamente
570 millions of speakers

English

naively
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भोलेपन से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بسذاجة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наивно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ingenuamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

naively
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

naïvement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Naif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

naiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

単純に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

순진
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Naively
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngây thơ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கபடமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्हेतुकपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

safça
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingenuamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naiwnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

наївно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

naivitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφελώς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

naïef
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

naivt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

naivt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of naively

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NAIVELY»

The term «naively» is regularly used and occupies the 71.045 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about naively

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10 QUOTES WITH «NAIVELY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word naively.
1
Eve Arnold
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.
2
Julian Baggini
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.
3
Joshua Ferris
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.
4
Bill Forsyth
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
5
Neil Jackson
I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.
6
Stana Katic
Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together.
7
Jeffrey Klarik
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
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Evgeny Morozov
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
9
David Nail
I naively thought I had to go door to door, find somebody who could record me singing some songs. I didn't know Music Row, I didn't know anything! So after six or seven months, I went back home and went to college.
10
Hanna Rosin
The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NAIVELY»

Discover the use of naively in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to naively and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Motivation and the Moral Sense in Francis Hutcheson’s ...
32 Let us begin with the Naively Realistic form of the Moral Sense Theory. This is the only one of the theories to be considered which lays any stress on the term " sense." After all, the term "moral sense" suggests analogies with sense ...
Henning Jensen, 1971
2
Bio-nanoimaging: Protein Misfolding & Aggregation
In order to unravel the precise causative relationship between the aberrant amyloid structure and disease Regions Most Affected Native Structure Cortex, hippocampus Naively unfolded Frontal and temporal lobes Naively unfolded Substantia ...
Vladimir Uversky, Yuri Lyubchenko, 2013
3
Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity
naively held. We might first point out to her that the constraints on her discourse are then presumably naively held, and, thus, that on her own terms we need not take her claim seriously. Apart from pointing out the self-referential infelicity of her  ...
Lorenzo C. Simpson, 2014
4
Metarepresentations : A Multidisciplinary Perspective: A ...
Sperber (1994) discusses three increasingly sophisticated strategies, each requiring an extra layer of metarepresentation, which might correspond to stages in pragmatic development. The simplest strategy is one of Naive Optimism. A Naively ...
Paris Dan Sperber Senior Research Professor of Philosophy CNRS, 2000
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Moduli Spaces and Vector Bundles
However when X is projective we can define 'naively stable' and 'naively semistable' points by omitting the condition that X f should be affine. m>0 HO(X,L ®m)G and for f G I let Xf be the G-invariant open subset of X where f does not vanish.
Steve Bradlow, 2009
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Meaning and Relevance
A Naively Optimistic hearer expects the speaker to succeed in being optimally relevant. In other words, he looks for an interpretation on which the utterance would satisfy his expectations of relevance: if he finds one, he assumes that it was the ...
Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber, 2012
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Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Sperber (1994) discusses three increasingly sophisticated strategies, each requiring an extra layer of metarepresentation, which might correspond to stages in pragmatic development. The simplest strategy is one of Naive Optimism. A Naively ...
Dan Sperber, 2000
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The Europeans, Second Edition: A Geography of People, ...
In contrast to instituted regions, which are the formal creations of authorities, naively perceived regions are created informally. They come into existence through popular recognition and without official sanction. Recognition may come from ...
Robert C. Ostergren, Mathias Le Bosse, 2011
9
The Retroactive Constitution of the Political Domain: From ...
First, if the naively conventionalist narrative version of the social contract has the form of a “just-so” story, then the Rawlsian normative version has the form of a “ just- not-so” story. That is, even if the naively conventionalist narrative version ...
Mason Richey, 2008
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Reality, Representation, and Projection
If a property has been seen then there must be a true causal explanation of some experience in terms of the object of the experience having the property. Barring a strange pre-established harmony between the colours as they naively seem to ...
John Haldane, Crispin Wright, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NAIVELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term naively is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pope's popularity plummets ahead of September visit to US
John Gehring, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said, "some progressives naively ... «Al Jazeera America, Jul 15»
2
A story about Nazis, human rights and above all, one courageous …
... did to the German people, and to anyone who tried – zealously, naively, and in the name of such silly notions as “human rights,” “freedom of ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
3
Press Releases: Remarks at a Reception in Honor of Eid-al-Fitr
“I will tell you, quite frankly, I believe in that possibility – not naively; with verification, with a program such as that which we've laid out. But if I ... «Military Technologies, Jul 15»
4
Councillors: Hands off the family jewels
But Councillor Denise Krum said she was glad everything was on the table, and said it was not the job of the council to naively guard assets ... «Radio New Zealand, Jul 15»
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Three Calgary nursing home workers face possible jail time for …
... but we trustingly and naively thought was imagined,” Peter Wissner said in the statement read in court by Crown prosecutor Susan Kennedy. «Calgary Herald, Jul 15»
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What It's Like To Be Completely Incapable Of Having A One-Night …
I naively expect the best out of men and set my expectations for romance way too high and then get disappointed when everything inevitably ... «Elite Daily, Jul 15»
7
What If We All Stopped Lying To Ourselves?
I used to think I knew what strength was. I even used to naively and perhaps arrogantly believe I was strong. I saw the road ahead of me so ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
How To Convince Your Boss To Give You Every Friday Off, Forever
"I think I just kind of naively believed that people understood how to be effective. But the reality is I needed to teach them and help them. «Co.Exist, Jul 15»
9
NASA Space Artists Explain Their Exoplanet Illustrations
RH: Venus is a nice case study in that naively one would potentially extend the habitable zone with fairly large boundary in our solar system, ... «Inverse, Jul 15»
10
LAW MATTERS: Marikana report fails in restoring dignity for the dead
I AM wondering whether my expectations of the Marikana Commission were too high. I really hoped and (perhaps naively) believed that its ... «BDlive, Jul 15»

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