naive
/nʌɪˈiːv/
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American sound/nʌɪˈiːv/
nʌɪˈiːv
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- 2nd syllable stress
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- Short i vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
nʌɪ - ˈiːv -> naive
Myanmar meaning
(adj) အတွေ့ အကြုံ မရှိသော။ နုံသော။ အ သော။ ပြောတိုင်း ယုံသော။ ရိုးသော။ ရိုးစင်းသော။
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naive (also naïve ) /naÇ'Ç:v/ adj
၁။ (esp derog ) (က) အတွေ့ အကြုံ မရှိသော။ နုံသော။ အ သော။ a naive person/ remark/ question ❍ be politically naive. (ခ) ပြောတိုင်း ယုံသော။ You weren't so naive as to believe him, were you?
၂။ ရိုးသော။ ရိုးစင်းသော။ Their approach to life is refreshingly naive. naively (also naïvely) adv
❏ naivety (also naïvety ) /naÇ'i:vǝti/, naïveté /naÇ'i:vǝteÇ /) n [U] နုံအခြင်း။ ရိုးစင်းခြင်း။ His work is a curious blend of sophistication and naivety.
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inexperienced, immature, adolescent, green, raw, youthful, aboveboard, artless, babe in woods, callow, candid, childlike, confiding, countrified, credulous, foolish, forthright, frank, fresh, guileless, gullible, gullible person, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenue, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple soul, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, trusting, trusting soul, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unwise, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed
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