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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unsophisticate \Un'so*phis"ti*cate\, Unsophisticated \Un'so*phis"ti*ca'ted\, adjective Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine. -- {Un'so*phis"ti*ca'ted*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unsophisticated
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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