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Envolve vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?

envolve | sophisticated |

As verbs the difference between envolve and sophisticated

is that envolve is alternative form of involve while sophisticated is past tense of sophisticate.

As an adjective sophisticated is

having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.

envolve

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (involve)
  • * 1828 , Shenstone, ed. William Fordyce Mavor, "To a Lady on the Language of the Birds", Classical English Poetry, for the use of schools, and young persons in general. A new edition, revised and improved , page 355
  • Envolve the mazes, and the mist dispel:
    ----

    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