naive-ingenu: meaning, definitions and translations

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What is naive? naive is ingenu

What is ingenu?

  • Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:

    Mancada d'experiència i comprensió mundanes, especialment:

  • Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.

    Simple i sense culpa; sense art: un nen amb un encant ingenu.

  • Unsuspecting or credulous: "Students, often bright but naive, bet—and lose—substantial sums of money on sporting events” ( Tim Layden).

    Desprevingut o crèdul:

  • Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast” ( H.L. Mencken).

    Mostrar o caracteritzar-se per una manca de sofisticació i judici crític:

  • Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.

    No prèviament sotmesos a experiments: provant ratolins ingenus.

  • Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: persons naive to marijuana.

    No haver pres prèviament o rebut una droga en particular: persones ingènues a la marihuana.

  • One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.

    Un que és sense art, crèdul o acrític.

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