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Elegance vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?

elegance | sophisticated |

As a noun elegance

is elegance.

As an adjective sophisticated is

having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.

As a verb sophisticated is

(sophisticate).

elegance

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners
  • The bride was elegance personified.
  • Restraint and grace of style
  • The simple dress had a quiet elegance .
  • The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision
  • The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .
  • (countable) A refinement or luxury
  • * {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation
  • , passage=Phineas Duge

    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

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sophisticate)
  • References

    Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997