semi-naive
semi-naive adjective: partially naive.
Adjective
semi-naive (comparative more semi-naive, superlative most semi-naive)
- Partially naive.
- Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl.1980, Inside Sports, page 106
- They are semi-civilized and semi-naive people.1985, Tejvir Singh, Jagdish Kaur, editors, Integrated Mountain Development, Himalayan Books, →ISBN, page 403
- 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-naive
| comparative | more semi-naive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most semi-naive |
| alternative form | semi-naïf |
| alternative form | seminaive |
| alternative form | seminaïve |
| alternative form | semi-naïve |
Origin of semi-naive
From semi- + naive.
Questions about semi-naive
- What does semi-naive mean?
- Semi-naive means partially naive.
- What part of speech is semi-naive?
- Semi-naive is an adjective.
Words near semi-naive in the dictionary
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