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semi-naïf

semi-naïf is the alternative form of semi-naive.

Meaning of semi-naive

Adjective

semi-naive (comparative more semi-naive, superlative most semi-naive)

  1. Partially naive.
    • Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl.1980, Inside Sports, page 106
  2. Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.
    • We would like to know if correlating some of the disjoint (and conditionally independent) feature subsets of a semi-naive Bayes can improve its predictive accuracy.2013, Concha Bielza, Antonio Salmeron, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN

Forms of semi-naïf

comparativemore semi-naïf
superlativemost semi-naïf

Questions about semi-naïf

What is semi-naïf the alternative form of?
Semi-naïf is the alternative form of semi-naive.

Words near semi-naïf in the dictionary

  1. semi-Muslim
  2. semi-naive
  3. semi-naked
  4. semi-natural
  5. semi-naturalistic
  6. semi-naïf
  7. semi-naïve
  8. semi-nerdy
  9. semi-new
  10. semi-nomadic
  11. semi-nomadism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-naïf (page history and authors); semi-naive (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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