Naive vs Naughty - What's the difference?
naive | naughty |
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), First Folio, The Merchant of Venice :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* (rfdate) Udall:
(obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.
* (rfdate) American King James Bible, Jeremiah 24:2:
Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
Immoral]], sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, [[risqué, cheeky.
As adjectives the difference between naive and naughty
is that naive is while naughty is .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.
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* See alsoDerived terms
* naively * naivete * naivety * naivenessAnagrams
* ----naughty
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Adjective
(er)- So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- Wholesome meats to a vitiated stomack differ little or nothing from unwholesome; and best books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occasions of evill.
- Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts.
- One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
- Some naughty boys at school hid the teacher's lesson notes.
- I bought some naughty lingerie for my honeymoon.
- If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from using the computer!
