Definition of naeve

("Editorials"...)

As the civic temper rises , the more naive citizens begin to play soldier - but the guns are real .

(High Fidelity, 11:10...)

The already faded pastel charms of the naive music itself vanish entirely in Fistoulari 's melodramatic contrasts between ultra vehement brute power and chilly , if suave , sentimentality .

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

I am naive , they say , to make use of such words .

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

Whatever the merits of its intent , Utopian communism is far too naive , far too crude , to suit any modern socialist or communist .