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unsophisticate

noun

Etymology

From un- + sophisticate.

  1. derived from σοφιστικός
  2. derived from sophisticus — “pertaining to the ancient Sophists, sophistic; pertaining to sophistry, sophistic, sophistical”
  3. derived from sophisticātus
  4. inherited from sophisticaten — “to mix (something) with a foreign or inferior substance, adulterate”
  5. prefixed as unsophisticate — “un + sophisticate”

Definitions

  1. An unsophisticated person.

    • In The New Yorker 80 years ago, Lou Gehrig was portrayed as an unsophisticate and a mama’s boy once rumored to have gone to the movies with a “red-cheeked German girl who wore a bunch of flowers in her hat.”

  2. unsophisticated

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA