Pure vs. Naive — What's the Difference?

Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed

Simple and guileless; artless

Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements

Unsuspecting or credulous

Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous

Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment

Complete; utter

Not previously subjected to experiments

Having no moral failing or guilt

Not having previously taken or received a particular drug

Chaste; virgin.

One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.

Of unmixed blood or ancestry.

Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

(Genetics) Produced by self-fertilization or continual inbreeding; homozygous

Not having been exposed to something.

(Music) Free from discordant qualities

(of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

(Linguistics) Articulated with a single unchanging speech sound; monophthongal

Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

Theoretical; not applied

A naive person; a greenhorn.

(Philosophy) Free of empirical elements

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

Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

Having a lack of knowledge, judgment, or experience; especially, lacking sophistication in judging the motives of others; credulous; as, a naive belief in the honesty of politicians.

Free of foreign material or pollutants.

Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience;

Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.

Lacking experience of life;

Mere; that and that only.

Lacking sophistication

(of a branch of science) Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.

(phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

(of sound) Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.

A lot of.

To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.

(golf) to hit (the ball) completely cleanly and accurately

To cleanse; to refine.

One who, or that which, is pure.

Alternative form of puer

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; - applied to persons.

Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; - applied to things and actions.

Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

Of a single, simple sound or tone; - said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Free of extraneous elements of any kind;

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

Concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied;

(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black

Free from discordant qualities

Used of persons or behaviors; having no faults; sinless;

In a state of sexual virginity;

Not mixed;