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Unsophisticated synonyms

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inexperienced
Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
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  1. Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
artless
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
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  1. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
  2. Free of artificiality; natural.
  3. Without artificiality; simple; natural
guileless
Free from guile; honest but naïve.
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  1. Free from guile; honest but naïve.
  2. Without guile; candid; frank
ingenuous
Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive:
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  1. Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive:
  2. Straightforward or frank; candid:
  3. Simple; artless; naive; without guile
innocent
Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
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  1. Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
  2. Not dangerous or harmful; innocuous:
  3. Without guile or cunning; artless; simple
simple
Not pretentious, guileful, or deceitful; humble or sincere:
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  1. Not pretentious, guileful, or deceitful; humble or sincere:
  2. Having little or no ornamentation; not embellished or adorned:
  3. Lowly in condition or rank:
artless
Having or displaying no guile or deceit; honest or sincere:
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  1. Having or displaying no guile or deceit; honest or sincere:
  2. Poorly made or done; crude.
  3. Without artificiality; simple; natural
gauche
Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
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  1. Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.
boorish
Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
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  1. Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.
  3. Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured.
ingenuous
(Obs.) Of noble birth or nature
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  1. (Obs.) Of noble birth or nature
  2. Straightforward or frank; candid:
  3. Simple; artless; naive; without guile
innocent
Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
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  1. Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
  2. Lacking, deprived, or devoid of something:
  3. Without guile or cunning; artless; simple
naive
Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
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  1. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
  2. Simple and guileless; artless:
  3. Unaffectedly or foolishly simple; childlike; artless
natural
Related genetically:
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  1. Related genetically:
  2. Conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature:
  3. Not altered, treated, or disguised:
simple
Having little or no ornamentation; not embellished or adorned:
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  1. Having little or no ornamentation; not embellished or adorned:
  2. Lowly in condition or rank:
  3. Without ostentation or affectation; natural
unaffected
Marked by lack of affectation; unpretentious or sincere.
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  1. Marked by lack of affectation; unpretentious or sincere.
  2. Not changed, modified, or affected.
  3. Without affectation; simple; sincere; natural
unstudied
Not gained by study or instruction:
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  1. Not gained by study or instruction:
  2. Not gotten by study or conscious effort
  3. Spontaneous; natural; unaffected
unworldly
Suggestive of another world, as in being bizarre or eerie:
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  1. Suggestive of another world, as in being bizarre or eerie:
  2. Having or showing little understanding of the ways of the world; naive or impractical:
  3. Of or relating to the spiritual as opposed to the material.
Find another word for unsophisticated. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for unsophisticated, like: inexperienced, naive, artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, simple, artless, unrefined, gauche and boorish.

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  • German Catholicism was still in a very raw, unsophisticated state.

  • The medieval mind was only too prone to look on morality as a highly technical art, quite as difficult as medicine or chancery law - a path where wayfaring men were certain to err, with no guide but their unsophisticated conscience.

  • The possession of firearms places irresistible temptations in the path of unsophisticated and quick-tempered tribesmen.

  • He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor.

  • The chronicle of Villehardouin is justly held to be the very best presentation we possess of the spirit of chivalry - not the designedly exalted and poetized chivalry of the romances, not the self-conscious and deliberate chivalry of the 14th century, but the unsophisticated mode of thinking and acting which brought about the crusades, stimulated the vast literary development of the 12th and 13th centuries, and sent knights-errant, principally though not wholly of French blood, to establish principalities and kingdoms throughout Europe and the nearer East.

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