Impolitic vs Naive - What's the difference?
impolitic | naive |
Not in accordance with good policy; unwise, inexpedient; unadvisable.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 210:
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
As adjectives the difference between impolitic and naive
is that impolitic is not in accordance with good policy; unwise, inexpedient; unadvisable while naive is .impolitic
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Alternative forms
* impolitick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Even when it was impolitic to admire, let alone name, Evagrius, his descriptions of progress in the spiritual life could not be and were not ignored [...].
References
* *naive
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Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!
- I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.
