As adjectives the difference between luxury and sophisticated
is that luxury is very expensive while sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
As a noun luxury
is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
As a verb sophisticated is
past tense of sophisticate.
luxury
Noun
(luxuries)
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
Something desirable but expensive.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
Antonyms
* (dispensable thing) necessity
Adjective
(
en adjective)
very expensive
not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
Related terms
* luxuriant
* luxuriate
* luxurious
* luxuriously
External links
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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