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Sophisticated vs Elaborated - What's the difference?

sophisticated | elaborated |

As adjectives the difference between sophisticated and elaborated

is that sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan while elaborated is (rhetoric) expanded.

As verbs the difference between sophisticated and elaborated

is that sophisticated is (sophisticate) while elaborated is (elaborate).

sophisticated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.
  • Elegant, refined.
  • Complicated, especially of complex technology.
  • Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
  • (obsolete, UK) Dishonest or misleading.

    • Antonyms

    * (having obtained worldly experience) provincial

    Synonyms

    * (having obtained worldly experience) worldly

    Related terms

    * sophisticate * sophist * sophistry * philosophy

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sophisticate)

    • References

    Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997

    elaborated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rhetoric) expanded

    • Antonyms

    * unelaborated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (elaborate)