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naively

/naɪˈivli/

naively adverb: in a naive manner.

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
    • At this point there may possibly be a few readers who naively expect that they will somehow be held exempt from this law of universal klutzhood. Not for them the indignities of life as a bungling beginner.1982, John Cassidy, The Hacky-Sack Book, page 22

naively meaning in Urdu

naively in Urdu

بھولپن سے, بلاتصنع, سادگی سے, ناسمجھی سے

Examples of naively in a sentence

  • They naively (or is it narrowmindedly?) believe that the unpardonable sin of past eras was not having twentieth-century thoughts.1997, Harold Raley, A Watch Over Mortality: The Philosophical Story of Julian Marias, →ISBN, page 145:
  • When Trump's election pulled back the curtain on the rise of the far-right in America, I'd naively assumed the Jewish left would be vindicated.2019, Eli Valley, “A Springtime of Erasure”, in Jewish Currents, number Fall 2019, page 14:

Forms of naively

comparativemore naively
superlativemost naively
alternative formnaïfly
alternative formnaïvely

Origin of naively

From naive + -ly.

Questions about naively

What does naively mean?
Naively means in a naive manner.
What is naively in Urdu?
Naively in Urdu is بھولپن سے, بلاتصنع, سادگی سے. See Naively meaning in Urdu.
How do you use naively in a sentence?
They naively (or is it narrowmindedly?) believe that the unpardonable sin of past eras was not having twentieth-century thoughts.
What part of speech is naively?
Naively is an adverb.
How do you pronounce naively?
Naively is pronounced /naɪˈivli/.

Words near naively in the dictionary

  1. Naivasha
  2. naive
  3. naive falsificationism
  4. naive realist
  5. naive realists
  6. naively
  7. naiveness
  8. naiver
  9. naives
  10. naivest
  11. naivete

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Adapted from Wiktionary: naively (page history and authors); naively (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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