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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | natural, simple |
| Synonyms: | artless, authentic, bush-league, callow, childlike, clean, cornball, corny*, crude, folksy, genuine, green*, guileless, homey, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, kid*, naive, plain, pure, raw, rookie, straightforward, unadulterated, unaffected, unartificial, uncomplicated, uninvolved, unrefined, unschooled, unstudied, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | cultured, experienced, refined, sophisticated, upper-class, worldly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | barbarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, barbarous, boorish, brutal, coarse, cruel, inhuman, lowbrow, merciless, philistine, primitive, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unsophisticated, untamed, vicious, vulgar, wild |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, humane, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | barbarous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, savage |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, brutal, brutish, coarse, cruel, ferocious, heartless, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, monstrous, primitive, rough, rude, ruthless, sadistic, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unsophisticated, vicious, vulgar, wicked, wild, wolfish |
| Notes: | barbaric pertains to crudeness and uncivility (based on Greek barbaros 'foreign'); barbarous pertains to cruelty, harshness, and immorality |
| Antonyms: | civilized, cultured, educated, kind, nice, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | callow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune, jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, not dry behind ears, puerile, raw, sophomore, tenderfoot, unbaked, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
| Antonyms: | experienced, initiated, mature, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, infantine, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
| Main Entry: | colonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pioneering, relating to a nonindependent or new territory |
| Synonyms: | crude, dependent, dominion, early American, emigrant, frontier, immigrant, new, outland, pilgrim, pioneer, prerevolutionary, primitive, provincial, puritan, territorial, transplanted, uncultured, unsettled, unsophisticated, wild |
| Antonyms: | modern, new |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
| Synonyms: | Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolitan, urban |
| Main Entry: | credulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible, naive |
| Synonyms: | accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable, easy mark, falling for, green, overtrusting, simple, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary |
| Notes: | credible means 'believable' and credulous means 'gullible' |
| Antonyms: | skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | familiar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, well-known |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, commonplace, conventional, customary, domestic, everyday, frequent, garden variety, habitual, homespun, household, humble, informal, intimate, known, matter-of-fact, mundane, native, natural, old hat, ordinary, plain, prosaic, proverbial, recognizable, repeated, routine, simple, stock, unceremonious, unsophisticated, usual, wonted, workaday |
| Antonyms: | foreign, new, strange, uncommon, undistinguished, unfamiliar, unknown, unremarkable |
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