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English Dictionary: naive by the DICT Development Group
3 results for naive
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
naive
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): naive, naif
    Antonym(s): sophisticated
  2. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
    Synonym(s): primitive, naive
  3. inexperienced
  4. lacking information or instruction; "lamentably unenlightened as to the laws"
    Synonym(s): uninstructed, unenlightened, naive
  5. not initiated; deficient in relevant experience; "it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes"; "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"
    Synonym(s): uninitiate, uninitiated, naive
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   naive adj.   1. Untutored in the perversities of some particular
   program or system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive
   way, rather than the right way (in really good designs these
   coincide, but most designs aren't `really good' in the appropriate
   sense).   This trait is completely unrelated to general maturity or
   competence, or even competence at any other specific program.   It is
   a sad commentary on the primitive state of computing that the
   natural opposite of this term is often claimed to be `experienced
   user' but is really more like `cynical user'.   2. Said of an
   algorithm that doesn't take advantage of some superior but advanced
   technique, e.g., the {bubble sort}. It may imply naivete on the part
   of the programmer, although there are situations where a naive
   algorithm is preferred, because it is more important to keep the
   code comprehensible than to go for maximum performance. "I know the
   linear search is naive, but in this case the list typically only has
   half a dozen items."
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   naive
  
      Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or
      system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way,
      rather than the right way (in really good designs these
      coincide, but most designs aren't "really good" in the
      appropriate sense).   This trait is completely unrelated to
      general maturity or competence or even competence at any other
      specific program.   It is a sad commentary on the primitive
      state of computing that the natural opposite of this term is
      often claimed to be "experienced user" but is really more like
      "cynical user".
  
      (1994-11-29)
  
  
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