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Refined vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?

refined | sophisticated |

As adjectives the difference between refined and sophisticated

is that refined is showing or having good feelings or good taste while sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.

As verbs the difference between refined and sophisticated

is that refined is past tense of refine while sophisticated is past tense of sophisticate.

refined

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
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  • An absence of coarseness.
  • Not vulgar.
  • Without impurities.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (refine)
    • The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.

    Anagrams

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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