Unsophisticated means inexperienced or naïve. Additional synonyms include simple and guileless.
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The spelling nieve is Scottish for "closed fist."The common English word naive means innocent or unsophisticated.
The word from French is gauche (left-handed, or awkward). It doesn't mean fashionable or unfashionable, but lacking ease or grace, being unsophisticated and socially awkward.The word can be applied to mean inelegant or lacking good taste, as one might be if gaudily dressed at a more proper occasion. That may have been the context.
The word ingenue is French but is also used in English. It means a naive, unsophisticated girl/woman. The opposite or antonym is a sophisticated girl/woman.
A peasant is a member of a class of small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. So a noble would be an antonym.Colloquially the word peasant has broadened to mean a coarse, unsophisticated, boorish, uneducated person. In this sense cultured or refined person would be an antonym.
It is a Caribbean word meaning an unsophisticated male black peasant
Uncouth.
crude
The opposite is "unsophisticated" which may mean boorish or coarse, or simply naive or unrefined.
unsophisticated; lacking worldliness
A possible synonym for an unsophisticated country dweller is "rustic" or "hick."
unsophisticated, crass, common and naive
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Primitive has a base in the word "Primate", so something that is more primitive is something more unsophisticated or savage.
A simple, guileless, inexperienced, or unsophisticated person.
Gauche is the French word for "left", as in "left-handed". In English, it has the meaning of vulgar, tasteless, unsophisticated, uncultured. It sounds like the simple word 'go', with the 'sh' sound at the end.
An unsophisticated country person. [Probably from Rube, nickname for Reuben.]