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naïvely

naïvely is the alternative form of naively.

Meaning of naively

Adverb

naively (comparative more naively, superlative most naively)

  1. In a naive manner.
    • The order was written. In less than ten days everything was "on wheels" and the whole body of these Sioux [was] on the move to the country they had indicated, and the Secretary of the Interior says, naively, in his report for 1868, "The Indians were found to be quite determined to move westward...1881, Helen Hunt Jackson, chapter V, in A Century of Dishonor

Forms of naïvely

comparativemore naïvely
superlativemost naïvely

Origin of naïvely

From naïve + -ly.

Questions about naïvely

What is naïvely the alternative form of?
Naïvely is the alternative form of naively.

Words near naïvely in the dictionary

  1. naïs
  2. naïve
  3. naïve realism
  4. naïve realist
  5. naïve realists
  6. naïvely
  7. naïveness
  8. naïver
  9. naïves
  10. naïvest
  11. naïvete

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Adapted from Wiktionary: naïvely (page history and authors); naively (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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