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Unsophisticated definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNSOPHIS'TICATED, a. Not adulterated by mixture; not counterfeit; pure; as unsophisticated drugs; unsophisticated arguments.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: unsophisticated, unworldly]
2: lacking complexity; "small and uncomplicated cars for those really interested in motoring"; "an unsophisticated machine" [syn: uncomplicated, unsophisticated]
3: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1630 not sophisticated: as a. not changed or corrupted ; genuine b. (1) not worldly-wise ; lacking social or economic sophistication (2) lacking complexity of structure ; simple, straightforward <an unsophisticated analysis> <unsophisticated rhythms> Synonyms: see natural

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 artless, simple, natural, ingenuous. 2 not adulterated or artificial. Derivatives: unsophisticatedly adv. unsophisticatedness n. unsophistication n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unsophisticate Un`so*phis"ti*cate, Unsophisticated Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted, a. Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine. -- Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Unsophisticated people do not have a wide range of experience or knowledge and have simple tastes. It was music of a rather crude kind which unsophisticated audiences enjoyed listening to... She was quite unsophisticated in the ways of the world. ? sophisticated ADJ 2. An unsophisticated method or device is very simple and often not very effective. ...an unsophisticated alarm system. = crude ? sophisticated ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Pure, unadulterated, genuine. 2. Guileless, undepraved, good, unpolluted, unvitiated, innocent. 3. Artless, simple, natural, unaffected, sincere, ingenuous, straightforward, honest, undesigning.

Moby Thesaurus

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