adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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I'd say she's a bit of a fanatic, and just as naive as the rest of them.
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Standard economic theory would dismiss the effort as naive and counterproductive.
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But to regard him as naive rather than evil is to miss the point.
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However, it is as naive to regard religious divisions as self-explanatory as it is to see nationalisms so.
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A radical criminology which appears to deny this will be seen as naive and rightly rejected.
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Students objected to being portrayed as naive , immature and easily-led innocents.
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Could anyone be as naive as Jett appeared to be?
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I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison.
rather
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This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death.
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Many, if not most, of their theories seem rather naive , even childlike, today.
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It is an attempt, perhaps a rather naive attempt, to apply information theory to decoration.
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Certainly, more modern uses of the survey method have disregarded some of the rather naive methodological assumptions of the early surveys.
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The script they came up with was trendy and repetitive, rather naive but tuned directly to the youth of the moment.
so
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This is where you are so naive .
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The explanations in the official report are so naive that they can not be taken seriously.
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At the time the criticism in the press seemed irrelevant because it was so naive .
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Realities were not so simple, men neither so cynical, nor so naive .
too
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It's almost too naive to ask!
very
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Manufacturers wrote their own copy and it appears very naive now.
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She was beautiful and sweet but very naive .
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And even though I'd had the baby, I was still very naive .
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I must have been very naive .
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He admitted he had been very naive when he began giving away his fortune six years ago.
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I was very naive at the beginning but I learn fast.
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Kattina was either a practised inquisitor, or very naive .
■ NOUN
view
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This is a rather naive view of a regime which openly threatens those who hold different views with death.
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This is, clearly, a pretty naive view , even of a direct response campaign.
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This sociologically naive view has long since had to be abandoned.
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However, such naive views , as we shall see later, were to be proved incorrect.
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She uses the vignettes to explode a naive view of romantic fulfilment in marriage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He held onto the naive belief that Marxism would solve all the world's problems.
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I was so naive - I believed everything the military told me.
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Stewart plays the naive new senator.
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We're not naive anymore like we were in the 60s.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Is anyone in domestic or foreign government stupid enough or naive enough to believe this?
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It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence.
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She struggled to analyze whether this was a naive point of view; or worthless cynicism.
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Talking with Bimal I realized how wrong - or naive - I had been.
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Yet only a naive observer would say that his son is not powerful.