unsophisticated

unsophisticated
adj
1. naive, simple, simple-minded, innocent, childlike, like a newborn babe; undeveloped, unworldly, not wise to the world, green, raw, born yesterday, wet behind the ears; unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, unguarded, trusting, trustful; guileless, artless, ingenuous, sincere.
2. uncouth, uncivilized, inurbane, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, philistine; awkward, clumsy, gauche, ungraceful, graceless, boorish, oafish, cloddish; coarse, rough, roughcast, rough-hewn, Inf. linsey-woolsey, inelegant, incondite; countrified, country-bred, country-born, upcountry, backwoods, provincial, yokelish, Sl. hickish, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed, Sl. from the sticks, Sl. from the boonies or boondocks; ignorant, unaware, Inf. not with it, Inf. out of it, Inf. square, Sl. unhip, Sl. icky.
3. homespun, homebred, homey, homely, homelike, homish, down-home, {usu. of thought or philosophy) cracker-barrel, Scot. raploch, Yiddish. heimish, Inf. folksy; plain, modest, unpretentious, unpretending, unaffected, unassuming, normal, informal.
4. unadulterated, unmixed, undiluted, uncut, uncor-rupted, uncontaminated, straight; pure, one-hundred percent, solid, sterling, twenty-four carat; genuine, authentic, real, true, bona fide.

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