English words for 'comparative form of naïve: more naïve'
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- the quality of innocent naivete
- a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense
- the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
- Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
- Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc.
- Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
noun
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
verb
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
- deplete
- excavate the earth beneath
adj
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green.
- (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- (Philippines, informal) Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
- Of a green hue.
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (figurative) Inexperienced.
- (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
- (metallurgy) Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
- not fully developed or mature; not ripe
- of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
- naive and easily deceived or tricked
- looking pale and unhealthy
- concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
- Good for the environment
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- A green light used as a signal.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (British) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- (theater, informal) Ellipsis of green room.
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
- an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
- any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
- green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- street names for ketamine
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- (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.
- (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
- An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
- an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
- an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
- the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
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- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment
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verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (rare) past participle of awake
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
- cause to become awake or conscious
- make aware
- stop sleeping
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noun
noun
noun
- the quality of innocent naivete
- a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense
- the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
- Lack of understanding about sensitive subjects such as sexuality and crime.
- Absence of responsibility for a crime, tort, etc.
- Lack of ability or intention to harm or damage.
adj
noun
noun
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (figurative) Vitality.
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- Any juice.
- a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
- a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
- a person who lacks good judgment
verb
- (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
- deplete
- excavate the earth beneath
noun
noun
- (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.
- (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
- An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
- an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
- an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
- the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive, figurative) To become aware.
- (theology) To call to a sense of sin.
- (rare) past participle of awake
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to become aware.
- (transitive) To cause to become awake.
- (intransitive) To stop sleeping; awake.
- (transitive, figurative) To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.
- cause to become awake or conscious
- make aware
- stop sleeping
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- (figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Islamist.
- (film, television, historical) Of film: freshly processed by the laboratory and not yet fully physically hardened.
- Having a status (as correct, ready, or safe) denoted or coded by the color green.
- (figurative) Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent; young.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
- (figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.
- (Philippines, informal) Having a sexual connotation; indecent; lewd; risqué; obscene; profane.
- (wine) High or too high in acidity.
- Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more flexible or springy.
- Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
- (figurative) Environmentally friendly.
- (academia) Subject to or involving a model of open access in which a published article is only available to read for free after an embargo period.
- Being or relating to the green currencies of the European Union.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) Of a green party, environmentalism-oriented.
- Of a green hue.
- (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount of moisture.
- (figurative) Inexperienced.
- (figurative, of people) Overcome with envy.
- (metallurgy) Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
- not fully developed or mature; not ripe
- of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass
- naive and easily deceived or tricked
- looking pale and unhealthy
- concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party
- Good for the environment
intj
noun
- A green light used as a signal.
- (politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
- A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
- Any substance or pigment of a green color.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (snooker) One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
- The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
- (British) A public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
- (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
- (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
- (theater, informal) Ellipsis of green room.
- (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
- an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party
- an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course
- any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables
- green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- street names for ketamine
verb
adj
noun
- (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
- (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
- (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
- Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
- (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
- (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
- (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
- (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
- a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- a person who lacks good judgment