What's the difference between clever and naive?

Clever


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
  • (a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
  • (a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
  • (a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
  • (a.) Good-natured; obliging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With such improvements, and possibly even with more clever use of therapy that already is available, wider and more complex use of liver transplantation will be possible.
  • (2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
  • (3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
  • (4) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
  • (5) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
  • (6) A clever political strategy would be to exploit these tensions.
  • (7) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
  • (8) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
  • (9) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
  • (10) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (11) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
  • (12) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
  • (13) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (14) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
  • (15) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
  • (16) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
  • (17) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
  • (18) The PPP was one of those oh-so-clever schemes devised by government supposedly to attract private sector investment for infrastructure and avoiding such schemes ending up on the government's balance sheet.
  • (19) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
  • (20) That left her accelerating towards Karen Bardsley but, reacting well to the danger, Bardsley raced off her line, cleverly narrowing the angle.

Naive


Definition:

  • (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From these results, BM-Eo are naive and seem to be a good indicator for eosinophilotaxis and its modulation.
  • (2) Rats were divided into four groups: drug naive controls; HAL-treated for 6 months; AMPH-treated for 1 month; and rats administered both continuous HAL for 6 months and concurrent AMPH treatment during the 2nd month of HAL administration.
  • (3) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
  • (4) One group of rats was made immunocompetent towards P. aeruginosa by intraperitoneal injection of phenol-killed P. aeruginosa while a second group remained naive to this organism.
  • (5) But pollsters said that even if the president's worst failing was to have been naively taken in, being hoodwinked by a tax-evader he appointed to one of the country's most important jobs would be hugely damaging for his presidential standing and authority.
  • (6) It is at present unclear whether this discrepancy is due to the preferential clonal selection of a pre-existing subpopulation of naive B cells that express variable regions altered via nucleotide replacement, or whether the process of nucleotide replacement occurs only during the antigen-dependent stages of B cell differentiation.
  • (7) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
  • (8) Those transmitted orally to naive hamsters developed in the normal way.
  • (9) We also found that the frequency of self-reactive but not alloreactive IL-2-producing T cells in the spleens of infected mice was 3- to 10-fold higher than that in naive mice.
  • (10) IgE helper activity by naive T cells was inhibited by IL-2.
  • (11) Primed Ts populations that were alloantigen restimulated for 8 hr adsorbed TsDF in a cell dose-dependent fashion and produced TsF in response to that adsorption, whereas alloantigen-stimulated naive cells or primed but nonrestimulated cells neither responded to nor bound TsDF.
  • (12) PKC was partially purified from the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from naive, pseudoconditioned, and conditioned rabbits 24 hr after the rabbits were well conditioned.
  • (13) Basal serum amino acids (including central monoamine precursors), central monoamines, and hormones were studied in schizophrenic patients (drug-naive; n = 20; drug-withdrawn for 3 or more days, n = 67; neuroleptic-treated, n = 23) and healthy subjects (n = 90) to answer the following questions: (1) Do neuroleptic-withdrawn and neuroleptic-naive patients differ on these serum measures?
  • (14) In contrast, rat erythrocyte-primed spleen cells suppressed both a primary 2,4,6 trinitrophenyl (TNP) response and anti-erythrocyte autoantibody production (but not anti-rat erythrocyte antibodies) upon transfer to naive recipients and challenge with TNP-rat erythrocytes.
  • (15) Animals still immune 6 weeks after immunization were found to have mucin profiles which did not differ significantly from those of freshly immunized animals, whereas animals susceptible to re-infection 12 weeks after immunization had mucin profiles more closely resembling those seen in naive controls.
  • (16) The cerebellar membrane GABA receptor complex was also studied with binding experiments using naive AT and ANT rats.
  • (17) These observations also suggest that the Leu8- and DR+ T cells with increased adhesion molecules might preferentially migrate into inflammatory tissues, and that naive T cells are being further converted to to memory T cells by in vivo stimulation within the tissues.
  • (18) Asked whether she could promise customers that such an attack would never happen again, Harding said: “No, that would be naive.
  • (19) Mean arterial blood pressure in dives was unchanged from pre-dive levels in both naive and trained dabbling ducks.
  • (20) In naive Cartesianism this assertion starts out from the assumption that illness may develop solely from physical causes.