Crossword-Solution: NAIVE 5 letters, 231 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Naive a. Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless;
frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated
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NAIVE anagram AVEIN, AVINE, EVIAN, IVANE, NAEVI, NIVEA, VINEA

We have 231 clues for the answer “NAIVE”

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Apt to be deceived 1 answer
Art style associated with Henri Rousseau 1 answer
Believing in the green-cheese moon, say 1 answer
Born yesterday, figuratively 1 answer
Certainly not worldly 1 answer
Childlike, in a way 1 answer
Devoid of subtlety. 1 answer
Easily conned 1 answer
Easily flimflammed 1 answer
Easily had 1 answer
Easily misled 1 answer
Easily played 1 answer
Easily snowed 1 answer
Easily taken advantage of 1 answer
Easy to con 1 answer
Easy to deceive 1 answer
Easy to fool 1 answer
Easy to pull a fast one on 1 answer
Far from experienced 1 answer
Far from sophisticated 1 answer
Far from urbane 1 answer
Far from worldly 1 answer
Far from worldly-wise 1 answer
Far from worldy 1 answer
Foolable 1 answer
Foolishly simple 1 answer
Green / Water from France 1 answer
Green as grass 1 answer
Gullible, maybe 1 answer
Hardly experienced 1 answer
Hardly ready for the world 1 answer
Hardly worldly 1 answer
Hopelessly romantic, say 1 answer
Ineggsperienced 1 answer
Inexperienced, innocent 1 answer
Innocently unspecting 1 answer
Lacking skepticism 1 answer
Lacking street smarts 1 answer
Lacking worldliness 1 answer
Lacking worldly wisdom 1 answer
Like Gomer Pyle 1 answer
Like Little Red Riding Hood 1 answer
Like a babe in the woods 1 answer
Like an ingénue 1 answer
Like folk art 1 answer
Like one born yesterday 1 answer
Like one who just fell off the turnip truck 1 answer
Mighty credulous. 1 answer
Naturally unsuspicious 1 answer
None too worldly 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NAIVE (5)

She had the sense of going back to a friendly soil, whose friendship was somehow going to strengthen her; a naive, generous country that gave one its joyous force, its large-hearted, childlike power to love, just as it gave one its coarse, brilliant flowers.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Additional motivation came from the comments of naive gopher users, several of whom assumed that a simple-touse service would provide a means to find resources `without having to know where they are.'" "The result of a Veronica search is an automatically-generated gopher menu, customized according to the user's keyword specification.
Surfing the Internet Jean Armour Polly 1993
Upon occasion, though, he would amuse himself with such calls by putting the caller through salesmen's hell; he would permit them to give their pitch, actually sound interested, permit the naive to believe that their call to Robert Henson would lead them to a pot of gold, then only to bring them down as harshly as he could.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Madame coquetted with him in the most captivating and naive manner, with eyes, gestures, and a profusion of compliments, till the Colonel’s old head felt thirty years younger on his padded shoulders.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
Her face, that had an air of naive and provoking independence, made him angry with its unnecessary surplus of enchantment.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008

Quotes with NAIVE (3)

If you don't like Cinderella because she seems so "naive" and "weak," listen to this quote from the Walt himself: "She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.
Walt Disney Company
Naive people tend to generalize people as — -good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of these things about Einstein, but it puts the notion of perfection to rest. Perfection doesn’t exist in anyone. Nor, does a person’s mistakes make them less valuable to the world. 1. He divorced the mother of his children, which cau…
Shannon L. Alder
If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other.
Epictetus The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 444 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).