Associations to the word «Naif»

Wiktionary

NAIF, adjective. Naive.
NAIF, noun. One who is naive.
NAÏF, adjective. Naive.
NAÏF, noun. One who is naive.

Dictionary definition

NAIF, noun. A naive or inexperienced person.
NAIF, adjective. Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience; "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"; "the naive assumption that things can only get better"; "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats