UNSOPHISTICATED - 10 definitions found
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: 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 Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) unsophisticated 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary unsophisticated 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 English Explanatory Dictionary unsophisticated ˈʌnsəˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪd adj. 1 artless, simple, natural, ingenuous. 2 not adulterated or artificial. øøunsophisticatedly adv. unsophisticatedness n. unsophistication n. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms unsophisticated a. 1. Pure, unadulterated, genuine. 2. Guileless, undepraved, good, unpolluted, unvitiated, innocent. 3. Artless, simple, natural, unaffected, sincere, ingenuous, straightforward, honest, undesigning. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) unsophisticated ˈʌnsəˈfɪstɪkeɪtɪd adj. 1 naìve, inexperienced, simple, childlike, unworldly, innocent, ingenuous, artless, guileless: Is the unsophisticated consumer sufficiently protected against unscrupulous traders? 2 simple, plain, uncomplicated, undetailed, uninvolved, unrefined: The computers of twenty years ago were unsophisticated compared with those of today. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 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 |
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