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Naïve, naïf, naïvety, naïveté - English Language & Usage Stack ...
naive or ingenuous. noun a naive or ingenuous person. It is true that the first word derive from the French word that is the feminine word of naïf, but from the dictionary I get they have different meanings. naive is used only as adjective. naif has the same meaning of naive, but it means also ingenuous.
orthography - Is it spelt "naïve" or "naive"? - English Language ...
naïve is the correct and official spelling/writing but naive is accepted, mostly because people can't be bothered putting the two dots on the i. – user29418 Commented Jan 11, 2017 at 3:01
"Naïve" vs "Ignorant" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Naive people are likely to be trusting or unsophisticated. Essentially, ignorance is a lack of knowledge or education. Naivety is a lack of experience and wisdom. Someone who makes inappropriate comments would more likely be described as ignorant. Someone who thinks that bad things only happen to bad people would be described as naive.
Is the diaeresis legal in “naïve”? - English Language & Usage ...
I understand why naïve is spelled with two dots, and that those dots are called a diaeresis. What I do not understand is whether the use of a diaeresis is legal in English; is it?
diacritics - Two dots on the "i" instead of one? - English Language ...
The origin of "naive" is the French word "naïve". (Notice that the French "naïve" is italicized) As a French word, it is spelled naïve or naïf. (French adjectives have grammatical gender; naïf is used with masculine nouns while naive is used with feminine nouns.) The two dots above the "i" are called diaeresis. As an unitalicized English ...
What is the practical difference between “ignorant” and “naïve”?
'Naive' is the opposite of 'cynical'. If you are naive, that may imply that you are ignorant of certain facts (like expectations of poor behavior of certain people) or it could mean that you think the best of people. One may be ignorant of algorithms for extracting roots of numbers, but tat doesn't translate to naivete. –
Interested in 'naive' pronunciation - English Language & Usage Stack ...
It's of French origin, if that helps. I don't speak French myself. Word Origin for naive. C7: from French, feminine of naïf, from Old French naif native, spontaneous, from Latin nātīvus native , from nasci to be born
"Naïve" yet "naivety"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Although I am unsure, this pronunciation seems to come back to the english appropriation of the foreign word. For those who don’t know, naive requires a dieresis from the diphthong created by “ai” in a single-syllable word, otherwise pronounced like the letter i. In the noun form of naivety, the stress is maintained on the ai.
What is the / is there any meaningful difference between the two ...
Is it spelt “naïve” or “naive”? Merriam-Webster lists both spellings without any comment on validity / usage. The second variant seems to be the French original, and the other the "anglified" version. Is there even a slight, maybe stylistic, difference?
synonyms - An adjective for "extremely naive, almost dumb" - English ...
@JanusBahsJacquet I agree, in the case of 1., the person would be more stupid than naive. "Naive" is based on beliefs, "stupid" more on facts. And the fact is, he hasn't paid anyone back. "Stupid" would work for both sentences, as it is a general pejorative word that covers many cases. For the first sentence, the fact is that most people will ...
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