Unsophisticated
[ʌnsə'fɪstɪkeɪtɪd] or [,ʌnsə'fɪstɪketɪd]
Definition
(adj.) 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 .
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Definition
(a.) Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Pure, unadulterated, genuine.[2]. Guileless, undepraved, good, unpolluted, unvitiated.
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Definition
adj. genuine unadulterated: free from artificiality simple inexperienced—also Unsophis′ticate.—ns. Unsophis′ticatedness; Unsophisticā′tion.
Typed by Kate
Examples
- He was confiding, good-natured, unsophisticated, companionable; but he was not a man to set the river on fire. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What an unsophisticated, untaught thing! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Miss Eyre, you are not so unsophisticated as Adele: she demands a 'cadeau,' clamorously, the moment she sees me: you beat about the bush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It would be something to be loved by such a girl, to excite the first ardours of her young unsophisticated mind! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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