Adjective: naïf
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more naïf |
| Superlative | most naïf |
Sample Sentences
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Doenitz was naïf to assume that England would have stood idly by while Germany built up her U-boat force to four figures; but it was true enough that the German Navy was unprepared for a submarine war. [1947, S.E. Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Little, Brown, & Company, page 5:]
Adjectives inflected like naïf
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from French naïf. Doublet of native and neif. See: French Adjectives '
naïf'.