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Exceptional vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?

exceptional | sophisticated |

As adjectives the difference between exceptional and sophisticated

is that exceptional is forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare while sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.

As a verb sophisticated is

(sophisticate).

exceptional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.
  • What an exceptional flower!
  • Better than the average; superior due to rarity.
  • The quality of the beer was exceptional.
  • Corresponding to something of lower dimension under a birational correspondence.
  • an exceptional''' curve; an '''exceptional divisor

    Synonyms

    * See also * (l)

    Antonyms

    * categorical

    Derived terms

    * exceptional space * exceptionally

    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