2016年12月14日 · a naive or ingenuous person. It is true that the first word derive from the French word that is the feminine word of naïf, but from the dictionary I get they have different meanings.

Closed 14 years ago. Possible Duplicate: “Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas” I've always wondered which is the correct spelling: "naïve" or "naive"? Are both correct, and it is just whichever you feel comfortable with?

Naive people are likely to be trusting or unsophisticated. Essentially, ignorance is a lack of knowledge or education. Naivety is a lack of experience and wisdom. Someone who makes inappropriate comments would more likely be described as ignorant. Someone who thinks that bad things only happen to bad people would be described as naive.

I understand why naïve is spelled with two dots, and that those dots are called a diaeresis. What I do not understand is whether the use of a diaeresis is legal in English; is it? Other than na...

2014年1月2日 · 'Naive' is the opposite of 'cynical'. If you are naive, that may imply that you are ignorant of certain facts (like expectations of poor behavior of certain people) or it could mean that you think the best of people.

The origin of "naive" is the French word " naïve ". (Notice that the French " naïve " is italicized) As a French word, it is spelled naïve or naïf. (French adjectives have grammatical gender; naïf is used with masculine nouns while naive is used with feminine nouns.) The two dots above the "i" are called diaeresis.

2018年11月7日 · For those who don’t know, naive requires a dieresis from the diphthong created by “ai” in a single-syllable word, otherwise pronounced like the letter i. In the noun form of naivety, the stress is maintained on the ai.

2012年10月12日 · “Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas” Is it spelt “naïve” or “naive”? Merriam-Webster lists both spellings without any comment on validity / usage. The second variant seems to be the French original, and the other the "anglified" version. Is there even a slight, maybe stylistic, difference?

2011年10月6日 · Disingenuous is a great word, but by itself it just means insincere. You would need context to understand that it's meant to mean insincerely naive.

As I understand, ö in coöperation is considered archaic (or is it?) and words like résumé, cliché and naïve are copied directly from foreign languages. Are there any contemporary native (non-borrow...