(p. a.) Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude.
Example Sentences:
(1) The streets and steps are brushed and washed every day, and while close-knit and countrified in its routines, Skopelos seems a proud, sophisticated town.
Unsophisticated
Definition:
(a.) Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite advances in resuscitation, the ability to predict survival at cardiac arrests remains unsophisticated.
(2) Survival data was more difficult to obtain due to cultural biases in a medically unsophisticated patient population.
(3) The majority of adolescents contacted had an unsophisticated but approximate understanding of HIV transmission dynamics and how to guard against infection.
(4) This makes the program easy to use and adaptable even to unsophisticated microcomputers.
(5) Aside from the unsophisticated health practices stemming from a knowledge of Puerto Rican folk medicine, the cultural phenomena of spiritualism plays a significant role in retarding the health status of the Puerto Rican.
(6) Different groups of sophisticated and unsophisticated judges made ratings at either 15 sec, 30 sec, or 60 sec intervals while listening to the samples.
(7) The unsophisticated will imagine this works crudely, with Cameron pulling out his notepad and taking dictation from Uncle Rupe.
(8) The unexpected occurrence of Lie scale elevations among paranoid patients not considered to be unsophisticated or naive prompted previous researchers to speculate that the measure might have other interpretive utility.
(9) Despite Obama's confidence, some experts are expressing serious doubts about whether the IRGC would be involved in such an uncharacteristically unsophisticated operation with a trail leading right to their doorstep.
(10) The shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said on Tuesday current superannuation tax concessions were “not equitable and not sustainable”, and he made an overture to the new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull , saying he could have the capacity to rise above the unsophisticated scare campaigns of the past.
(11) The results show that relatively unsophisticated raters in comparison with trained and experienced raters are able to utilize the drug severity form with a minimum of error.
(12) The relatively low prevalence of RA in this population is consistent with the results of other surveys in unsophisticated African Negro populations in West Africa and South Africa, and contrasts with the higher prevalence encountered in an urbanized South African Negro community and in populations in Europe and the USA.
(13) According to researchers, the "unsophisticated" spy program was designed specifically to search and steal Hangul word processor (HWP) documents, which are used widely by South Korean officials.
(14) Unsophisticated lower-class clients are likely to receive scantier, less accurate information and less courteous treatment than educated middle-class clients.
(15) In children as well as in adults, capillaroscopy is an unsophisticated and non invasive technique which allows to investigate vascular acrosyndromes and systemic diseases.
(16) Psychophysical testing of the warning agents has been rather unsophisticated.
(17) We describe herein an unsophisticated method which reveals that at least certain simple repetitive (gt)n(ga)m sequences bind nuclear proteins and show characteristics of a specific DNA-protein interaction via gel retardation.
(18) The study shows that in developing countries, unsophisticated research, using basic facilities, can be of value in identifying the problems of infection and in recognizing possible solutions to them.
(19) Such international ostracism had a powerful effect on the ruling government, but elsewhere some campaigners began to voice concern that organisations were being unsophisticated in their activism, opting for a knee-jerk boycott in every instance and risking the public's goodwill.
(20) These relatively unsophisticated methods produced satisfactory results.