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

Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness; artlessness. A story which pleases me by its naïveté -- that is, by its unconscious ingenuousness. De Quincey.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone. Dunglison.

Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.

Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, edema; affected with edema.

Too wise; affectedly wise. -- O`ver*wise"ly, adv. -- O`ver*wise"ness, n.

Affected wisdom; pompous dellness. [R.]

Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

Affected with paralysis, or palsy. The cold, shaking, paralytic hand. Prior.

Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia.

Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents. [R.] Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter. Bacon.

elaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the action of heat, of strong nitric acid, ch…