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Naive vs Dimwitted - What's the difference?

naive | dimwitted |

As adjectives the difference between naive and dimwitted

is that naive is while dimwitted is .

naive

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
    • Surely you're not naive enough to believe adverts!
  • (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
    • I've always liked the naive way in which he ignores all the background detail.

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    Derived terms

    * naively * naivete * naivety * naiveness

    Related terms

    * naif *

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    dimwitted

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    • , date=2010-12-19 , year= , first= , last= , author=Terry Gardner , authorlink= , title=The Gift of Foreign-language Learning , site=The Chicago Tribune citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-17 , passage=My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak. }}