"naïf" meaning in Français

See naïf in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: \na.if\, \na.if\, na.if Audio: Fr-naïf.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav Forms: naïfs [plural, masculine], naïve [singular, feminine], naïves [plural, feminine]
Rhymes: \if\
  1. Naturel, ingénu, sans fard, sans apprêt, sans artifice.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-SjdIufta Categories (other): Exemples en français
  2. Qui retrace simplement la vérité, qui imite la nature sans laisser paraître d’artifice ni d’effort.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-rOqNJrjS Categories (other): Exemples en français
  3. Qui n’est pas concerté, qui n’est pas étudié.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-qSqWVzXf Categories (other): Exemples en français
  4. Qui dit sa pensée sans détour, ingénument, en parlant des personnes.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-gGs8f~jC Categories (other): Exemples en français
  5. Qui dit, par un excès de simplicité, ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-kIqMvco1 Categories (other): Exemples en français
  6. Qui, par excès de simplicité, se laisse facilement tromper.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-sjFNp4uq Categories (other): Exemples en français
  7. Qualifie certaines choses de l’humanité, dans tous les sens analogues. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-KQAsjTMS Categories (other): Exemples en français
  8. Vierge de tout traitement.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-adj-H7jbpvjU Categories (other): Lexique en français de la médecine Topics: medicine
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (qui dit ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher :): candide, innocent Synonyms (qui dit sa pensée sans détour :): spontané, ingénu Synonyms (qui se laisse facilement tromper :): crédule Synonyms (sans artifice :): naturel Derived forms: archi-naïf, archinaïf, pointe naïve Related terms: naïveté Translations: naiv (Allemand), naive (Anglais), naïve (Anglais), naïf (Anglais), naif (Anglais), ingenuous (Anglais), innocent (Anglais), simple (Anglais), blue-eyed (Anglais), ساذج (sèdhij) (Arabe), hegredik (Breton), càndid (Catalan), candorós (Catalan), ingenu (Catalan), naiv (Danois), ingenuo (Espagnol), cándido (Espagnol), naiva (Espéranto), lapsellinen (Finnois), naiivi (Finnois), herkkäuskoinen (Finnois), góðvarin (Féroïen), baegoule (Gallo), bagoule (Gallo), abuzion (Gallo), αφελής (afelís) (Grec), εὐήθης (euèthès) (Grec ancien), naív (Hongrois), תם (tam) (Hébreu), blax (Latin), blanx (Latin), bonaika (Malgache), nandra (Malgache), ramasabomanga (Malgache), vendrana (Malgache), vendram-pory [offensive] (Malgache), argeloos (Néerlandais), naïef (Néerlandais), ongekunsteld (Néerlandais), onnozel (Néerlandais), nèci [masculine] (Occitan), ingenú [masculine] (Occitan), naiwny (Polonais), cândido (Portugais), ingênuo (Portugais), simplório (Portugais), inocente (Portugais), tolo (Portugais), naiv (Roumain), jáhkkil (Same du Nord), naiv (Suédois), blåögd (Suédois), naivní (Tchèque), bön (Turc), saflık (Turc), ngây thơ (Vietnamien)

Noun

IPA: \na.if\, \na.if\, na.if Audio: Fr-naïf.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav Forms: naïfs [plural], naïve [feminine]
Rhymes: \if\
  1. Personne naïve.
    Sense id: fr-naïf-fr-noun-tMQLQBRL Categories (other): Exemples en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations: Naive (Allemand), naive (Anglais), naïve (Anglais), baegoule (Gallo), bagoule (Gallo)

Inflected forms

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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "afin"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fain"
    },
    {
      "word": "fina"
    },
    {
      "word": "nifa"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "Rimes en français en \\if\\",
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en allemand",
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en catalan",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en danois",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en espagnol",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en espéranto",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en finnois",
      "parents": [],
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      "kind": "other",
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en grec",
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    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en grec ancien",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en hongrois",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en hébreu",
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en latin",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en malgache",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en néerlandais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en occitan",
      "parents": [],
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    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en polonais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en portugais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en roumain",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en same du Nord",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en suédois",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
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      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en turc",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Traductions en vietnamien",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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      "name": "Français",
      "orig": "français",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
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      "kind": "other",
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      "orig": "ï en français",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "archi-naïf"
    },
    {
      "word": "archinaïf"
    },
    {
      "word": "pointe naïve"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin nativus (« qui naît, inné, naturel ») → voir natif."
  ],
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        "\\na.if\\"
      ],
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        "plural",
        "masculine"
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        "\\na.iv\\"
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        "singular",
        "feminine"
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        "\\na.iv\\"
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "pos_title": "Adjectif",
  "related": [
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      "word": "naïveté"
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil ; tome 1 : De New-York à Tahiti, 1929",
          "text": "La population de Saint-David m’intéressait fort par ses mœurs simples et naïves et parlait un curieux patois anglais plein d’expressions maritimes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Encyclopédie du dix-neuvième siècle, 1870, page 212",
          "text": "Du reste, on n’y regardait pas de si près, et l’on pouvait tout aussi bien, au XVIᵉ siècle, accommoder ces cantiques naïfs sur des airs de danse, que, cent ans après, ajuster les noëls de de la Monnoye sur les airs des ballets de Lulli, le Rigodon de Galathée, sa Chaconne du grand ballet du Roy, l’ouverture de Bellérophon, etc."
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      "glosses": [
        "Naturel, ingénu, sans fard, sans apprêt, sans artifice."
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Faire une description, une relation, une peinture naïve de quelque chose."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui retrace simplement la vérité, qui imite la nature sans laisser paraître d’artifice ni d’effort."
      ],
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    },
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Avoir quelque chose de naïf dans l’humeur, dans l’esprit, dans l’air."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui n’est pas concerté, qui n’est pas étudié."
      ],
      "id": "fr-naïf-fr-adj-qSqWVzXf"
    },
    {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "C’est un homme naïf, une personne franche et naïve."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui dit sa pensée sans détour, ingénument, en parlant des personnes."
      ],
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    },
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "Élie Barnavi, L’Europe comme utopie, dans Marianne du 13 août 2011, p.81",
          "text": "Que la réalité ne corresponde pas au rêve, seuls les naïfs s’en étonneront. D’abord, il y eut autant de rêves que de rêveurs. […] Enfin, et surtout, si les hommes pouvaient réaliser leurs utopies, cela se saurait."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui dit, par un excès de simplicité, ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher."
      ],
      "id": "fr-naïf-fr-adj-kIqMvco1"
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Georges Sorel, Réflexions sur la violence, Chap.IV, La grève prolétarienne, 1908, p.157",
          "text": "Il leur faut des électeurs ouvriers assez naïfs pour se laisser duper par des phrases ronflantes sur le collectivisme futur."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui, par excès de simplicité, se laisse facilement tromper."
      ],
      "id": "fr-naïf-fr-adj-sjFNp4uq"
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Amour-propre naïf."
        },
        {
          "text": "Une vanité naïve."
        },
        {
          "text": "Il lui est échappé une réponse bien naïve."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qualifie certaines choses de l’humanité, dans tous les sens analogues."
      ],
      "id": "fr-naïf-fr-adj-KQAsjTMS",
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    },
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en français de la médecine",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vierge de tout traitement."
      ],
      "id": "fr-naïf-fr-adj-H7jbpvjU",
      "topics": [
        "medicine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "\\na.if\\"
    },
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      "ipa": "\\na.if\\",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "sans artifice :",
      "word": "naturel"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui dit sa pensée sans détour :",
      "word": "spontané"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui dit sa pensée sans détour :",
      "word": "ingénu"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui dit ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher :",
      "word": "candide"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui dit ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher :",
      "word": "innocent"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui se laisse facilement tromper :",
      "word": "crédule"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "naiv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naive"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naïve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naïf"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naif"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "ingenuous"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "innocent"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "simple"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "blue-eyed"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Arabe",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "sèdhij",
      "word": "ساذج"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Breton",
      "lang_code": "br",
      "word": "hegredik"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "càndid"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "candorós"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "ingenu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danois",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "word": "naiv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "ingenuo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "cándido"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espéranto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "naiva"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Féroïen",
      "lang_code": "fo",
      "word": "góðvarin"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "lapsellinen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "naiivi"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "herkkäuskoinen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "baegoule"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "bagoule"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "abuzion"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Grec",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "afelís",
      "word": "αφελής"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Grec ancien",
      "lang_code": "grc",
      "roman": "euèthès",
      "word": "εὐήθης"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Hébreu",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "tam",
      "word": "תם"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Hongrois",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "word": "naív"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "word": "blax"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "word": "blanx"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "bonaika"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "nandra"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "ramasabomanga"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "vendrana"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "tags": [
        "offensive"
      ],
      "word": "vendram-pory"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "argeloos"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "naïef"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "ongekunsteld"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "onnozel"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nèci"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingenú"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polonais",
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      "lang": "Portugais",
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      "word": "cândido"
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      "lang": "Portugais",
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      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "simplório"
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    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "inocente"
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    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "tolo"
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      "lang": "Roumain",
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      "lang": "Same du Nord",
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      "lang": "Suédois",
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      "lang": "Tchèque",
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      "lang": "Turc",
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    },
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      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "saflık"
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      "lang": "Vietnamien",
      "lang_code": "vi",
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      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Naive"
    },
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      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naive"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naïve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "baegoule"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
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}
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  "anagrams": [
    {
      "word": "afin"
    },
    {
      "word": "Fain"
    },
    {
      "word": "fina"
    },
    {
      "word": "nifa"
    }
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    "Traductions en anglais",
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    "Traductions en danois",
    "Traductions en espagnol",
    "Traductions en espéranto",
    "Traductions en finnois",
    "Traductions en féroïen",
    "Traductions en gallo",
    "Traductions en grec",
    "Traductions en grec ancien",
    "Traductions en hongrois",
    "Traductions en hébreu",
    "Traductions en latin",
    "Traductions en malgache",
    "Traductions en néerlandais",
    "Traductions en occitan",
    "Traductions en polonais",
    "Traductions en portugais",
    "Traductions en roumain",
    "Traductions en same du Nord",
    "Traductions en suédois",
    "Traductions en tchèque",
    "Traductions en turc",
    "Traductions en vietnamien",
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      "word": "archi-naïf"
    },
    {
      "word": "archinaïf"
    },
    {
      "word": "pointe naïve"
    }
  ],
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    "Du latin nativus (« qui naît, inné, naturel ») → voir natif."
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        "masculine"
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      "ipas": [
        "\\na.iv\\"
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        "feminine"
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    {
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        "feminine"
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  "pos": "adj",
  "pos_title": "Adjectif",
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      "word": "naïveté"
    }
  ],
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      "categories": [
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          "ref": "Alain Gerbault, À la poursuite du soleil ; tome 1 : De New-York à Tahiti, 1929",
          "text": "La population de Saint-David m’intéressait fort par ses mœurs simples et naïves et parlait un curieux patois anglais plein d’expressions maritimes."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Encyclopédie du dix-neuvième siècle, 1870, page 212",
          "text": "Du reste, on n’y regardait pas de si près, et l’on pouvait tout aussi bien, au XVIᵉ siècle, accommoder ces cantiques naïfs sur des airs de danse, que, cent ans après, ajuster les noëls de de la Monnoye sur les airs des ballets de Lulli, le Rigodon de Galathée, sa Chaconne du grand ballet du Roy, l’ouverture de Bellérophon, etc."
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        "Naturel, ingénu, sans fard, sans apprêt, sans artifice."
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    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
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          "text": "Faire une description, une relation, une peinture naïve de quelque chose."
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      ],
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        "Qui retrace simplement la vérité, qui imite la nature sans laisser paraître d’artifice ni d’effort."
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    {
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        "Exemples en français"
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      "examples": [
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          "text": "Avoir quelque chose de naïf dans l’humeur, dans l’esprit, dans l’air."
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui n’est pas concerté, qui n’est pas étudié."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "C’est un homme naïf, une personne franche et naïve."
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui dit sa pensée sans détour, ingénument, en parlant des personnes."
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    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Élie Barnavi, L’Europe comme utopie, dans Marianne du 13 août 2011, p.81",
          "text": "Que la réalité ne corresponde pas au rêve, seuls les naïfs s’en étonneront. D’abord, il y eut autant de rêves que de rêveurs. […] Enfin, et surtout, si les hommes pouvaient réaliser leurs utopies, cela se saurait."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui dit, par un excès de simplicité, ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Georges Sorel, Réflexions sur la violence, Chap.IV, La grève prolétarienne, 1908, p.157",
          "text": "Il leur faut des électeurs ouvriers assez naïfs pour se laisser duper par des phrases ronflantes sur le collectivisme futur."
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Qui, par excès de simplicité, se laisse facilement tromper."
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        {
          "text": "Amour-propre naïf."
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        {
          "text": "Une vanité naïve."
        },
        {
          "text": "Il lui est échappé une réponse bien naïve."
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        "Qualifie certaines choses de l’humanité, dans tous les sens analogues."
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      ]
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      "categories": [
        "Lexique en français de la médecine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Vierge de tout traitement."
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      "topics": [
        "medicine"
      ]
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      "sense": "sans artifice :",
      "word": "naturel"
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    {
      "sense": "qui dit sa pensée sans détour :",
      "word": "spontané"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui dit sa pensée sans détour :",
      "word": "ingénu"
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    {
      "sense": "qui dit ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher :",
      "word": "candide"
    },
    {
      "sense": "qui dit ce qu’il aurait intérêt à cacher :",
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      "sense": "qui se laisse facilement tromper :",
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      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "naiv"
    },
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      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naive"
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      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naïve"
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    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naïf"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naif"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "ingenuous"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "innocent"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "simple"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "blue-eyed"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Arabe",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "sèdhij",
      "word": "ساذج"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Breton",
      "lang_code": "br",
      "word": "hegredik"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "càndid"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "candorós"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "word": "ingenu"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Danois",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "word": "naiv"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "ingenuo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espagnol",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "word": "cándido"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Espéranto",
      "lang_code": "eo",
      "word": "naiva"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Féroïen",
      "lang_code": "fo",
      "word": "góðvarin"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "lapsellinen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "naiivi"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Finnois",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "word": "herkkäuskoinen"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "baegoule"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "bagoule"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "abuzion"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Grec",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "afelís",
      "word": "αφελής"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Grec ancien",
      "lang_code": "grc",
      "roman": "euèthès",
      "word": "εὐήθης"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Hébreu",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "tam",
      "word": "תם"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Hongrois",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "word": "naív"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "word": "blax"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Latin",
      "lang_code": "la",
      "word": "blanx"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "bonaika"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "nandra"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "ramasabomanga"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "word": "vendrana"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Malgache",
      "lang_code": "mg",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "vendram-pory"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "argeloos"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "naïef"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "ongekunsteld"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Néerlandais",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "word": "onnozel"
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    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nèci"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "lang_code": "oc",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingenú"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Polonais",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "word": "naiwny"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "cândido"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "ingênuo"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "simplório"
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    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "inocente"
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    {
      "lang": "Portugais",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "word": "tolo"
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    {
      "lang": "Roumain",
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      "word": "naiv"
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    {
      "lang": "Same du Nord",
      "lang_code": "se",
      "word": "jáhkkil"
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    {
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      "word": "naiv"
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    {
      "lang": "Suédois",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "word": "blåögd"
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    {
      "lang": "Tchèque",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "word": "naivní"
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    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "bön"
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    {
      "lang": "Turc",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "word": "saflık"
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    {
      "lang": "Vietnamien",
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    },
    {
      "word": "nifa"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en français",
    "Mots en français issus d’un mot en latin",
    "Noms communs en français",
    "Rimes en français en \\if\\",
    "Traductions en allemand",
    "Traductions en anglais",
    "Traductions en gallo",
    "français",
    "ï en français"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin nativus (« qui naît, inné, naturel ») → voir natif."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "naïfs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "naïve",
      "source": "form line template 'équiv-pour'",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Français",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en français"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Claude Giraud, De la violence, 2022",
          "text": "Il faut admettre que le titre de cet ouvrage pourrait à lui seul donner à croire que son auteur est un naïf, un candide ou encore un provocateur niais."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Personne naïve."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\na.if\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\na.if\\",
      "rhymes": "\\if\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-naïf.ogg",
      "ipa": "na.if",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/Fr-naïf.ogg/Fr-naïf.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fr-naïf.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "France"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q150_(fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav/LL-Q150_(fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ef/LL-Q150_(fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav/LL-Q150_(fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Suisse (canton du Valais)"
      ],
      "wav_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-naïf.wav"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q150_(fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav/LL-Q150_(fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q150_(fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav/LL-Q150_(fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "France (Vosges)"
      ],
      "wav_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-naïf.wav"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "masculine"
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "lang": "Allemand",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "word": "Naive"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naive"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "naïve"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "baegoule"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Gallo",
      "lang_code": "gallo",
      "word": "bagoule"
    }
  ],
  "word": "naïf"
}

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