naiive

Adjective

naive (comparative naiver or more naive, superlative naivest or most naive)

1. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
   • Whether by design or driven by the force of circumstances, they have always directed their main effort toward gaining the support of this "elite," while the more conservative groups have acted, as regularly but unsuccessfully, on a more naive view of mass democracy and have usually vainly tried...1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 418
2. Not having been exposed to something.
   • Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune […]2011, Lila Miller, Kate Hurley, Infectious Disease Management in Animal Shelters
3. Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
   • By 1921 when Miró painted his key work, naive painting had been recognized by the avantgarde art world as a genre in its own right.2006, Janis Mink, Joan Miró, →ISBN, page 33
4. Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
   • We have experiments of running our matching algorithm and a naive matching algorithm for such a term tree and a tree, and have compared the performance of the two algorithms.2007, Takao Terano, Huan Liu, Arbee L.P. Chen, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, →ISBN

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