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Synonyms for unsophisticated

Synonyms for unsophisticated: hick and unworldly. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 4, High Camp · 2 senses · adjective · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for unsophisticated

  • hickadjective, in the sense "awkwardly simple and provincial"
  • unworldlyadjective, in the sense "not wise in the ways of the world"

All two are filed under unsophisticated's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 4, High CampPeople and roles

awkwardly simple and provincial

The nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

hick

Same sentence, swapped: The nightlife of Montmartre awed the hick tourists.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

  • unadulterated
  • confiding
  • soft
Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 4, High Camp

not wise in the ways of the world

Either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

unworldly

Same sentence, swapped: Either too unworldly or too honest to promise more than he could deliver.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for unsophisticated in the sentence quoted.

  • uncomplicated
  • rustic
  • unadulterated

Where unsophisticated turns up in the game

unsophisticated is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play unsophisticated

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unsophisticated reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. unsophisticated carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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