Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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naive

UK /naɪˈiːv/ · US /naɪˈiv/ adjective, noun

Forms naiver naivest naives naiive

  1. adjective Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
  2. adjective Not having been exposed to something.
  3. adjective (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
  4. adjective (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.
  5. noun A naive person; a greenhorn.

Synonyms

artless callow childlike verdant clueless credulous dewy-eyed cute fleeceable foppotee green guileless ingenuous innocent jejune Panglossian Panglossic quaint simple simple-hearted naif primitive uninstructed unenlightened uninitiate uninitiated

Antonyms

affected mature nuanced pretentious sophisticated wily worldly

Etymology

Borrowed from French naïve, feminine form of naïf, from Latin nātīvus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.

Unadapted borrowing from French naïve, feminine of naïf.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naïve manners; a naïve person; naïve and unsophisticated remarks.

Etymology [F. naïf, fem. naïve, fr. L. nativus innate, natural, native. See Native, and cf. Naïf.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “naive”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “naive” (best matches first).