Naive vs Informed - What's the difference?
naive | informed |
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
(inform)
Instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education.
Based on knowledge; founded on due understanding of a situation.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 696:
(obsolete) Created, given form.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
As adjectives the difference between naive and informed
is that naive is while informed is instructed; having knowledge of a fact or area of education or informed can be (obsolete) unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless.As a verb informed is
(inform).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.
Synonyms
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* naively * naivete * naivety * naivenessAnagrams
* ----informed
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Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Another informed and sobering estimate is that by 1800 indigenous populations in the western hemisphere were a tenth of what they had been three centuries before.
- after Nilus invndation, / Infinite shapes of creatures men do fynd, / Informed in the mud, on which the Sunne hath shynd.