also naive
If you describe someone as ~, you think they lack experience and so expect things to be easy or people to be honest or kind.
It’s ~ to think that teachers are always tolerant...
...~ idealists...
Their view was that he had been politically ~.
= unrealistic
ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ to-inf, ADJ to-inf
~ly
...~ly applying Western solutions to Eastern problems...
I thought, ~ly, that this would be a nine-to-five job.
ADV: usu ADV with v
~ty
I was alarmed by his ~ty and ignorance of international affairs.
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