Unsophisticate \Un`so*phis"ti*cate\, Unsophisticated
\Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a.
Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
unsophisticated
adj 1: not wise in the ways of the world; "either too
unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he
could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"-
Kate O'Brien [syn: unworldly]
2: lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those
really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated
machine" [syn: uncomplicated]
3: lacking experience of life; "a callow youth of seventeen"
[syn: callow, inexperienced, naive]
4: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
"rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly,
hick, rustic]
5: lacking sophistication [syn: naive]
WordNet (r) 2.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "unsophisticated":
absolute, artless, authentic, bald, bare, blank, bluff, blunt,
bona fide, born yesterday, callow, candid, childlike, clarified,
clear, confiding, crude, cullible, deceivable, deludable, direct,
distilled, dupable, easy, exploitable, foolable, frank, genuine,
green, guileless, gullible, hoaxable, hoodwinkable, humbugable,
inexperienced, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent, naive, naked, neat,
nude, open, openhearted, outspoken, persuadable, plain, purified,
rectified, seduceable, sheer, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded,
sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, soft, straight, trustful,
trusting, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unalloyed,
unarrayed, unartificial, unblended, uncombined, uncomplicated,
uncompounded, uncorrupted, uncouth, undecked, undecorated,
undiluted, undressed, unembellished, unfortified, unfurbished,
ungarnished, unguarded, uninvolved, unleavened, unmingled, unmixed,
unornamented, unrefined, unreserved, unschooled, unstudied,
unsuspicious, untinged, untrimmed, untutored, unvarnished, unwary,
unworldly, victimizable
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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