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Word of the Day for Wednesday, August 27, 2008naif \nah-EEF; ny-\, adjective: 1. Naive. It is only very naif critics who think that all one's influences must be contemporary. Their money-grubbing game: they feign a tragic past and prey on the sympathies of unsuspecting naifs, fishing for bank account numbers or photocopies of passports. Believing nothing, the skeptic is blind; believing everything, the naif is lame. But underneath their differences, they're variations on a theme: one a naif, one worldly-wise who learns from the naif. Naif comes from French, from Old French naif, "naive, natural, just born," from Latin nativus, "native, rustic," literally "born, inborn, natural," from Latin nativus, "inborn, produced by birth," from natus, past participle of nasci, "to be born." | |||||||||
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