Innocent
Innocent adjective - Free from any intent to deceive or impress others.
Usage example: an innocent offer to sing before the gathering
Sophisticated
Sophisticated adjective - Having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience.
Usage example: a surprisingly sophisticated and widely traveled child
Innocent is an antonym for sophisticated.
Nearby Words: sophistication, sophisticating
Both words in one sentence
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Although all the same age the girls on Friends can be viewed this way, with flirty and sophisticated Rachel as the seductress, innocent and quirky Phoebe as the child and capable, responsible Monica as the wife.
Source: The Three Faces of Eve - The most dynamic has been Galatea, born a complete innocent, turned hyper-paranoid by an awful childhood, then calming down and settling into a rather sophisticated lifestyle in France (funded by theft), and now she has unwittingly become a minion to the comic's Big Bad.
Source: Dynamic Character
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