[syn: bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unsophisticate \Un`so*phis"ti*cate\, Unsophisticated
\Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a.
Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
[1913 Webster] -- Un`so*phis"ti*ca`ted*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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