Savvy vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?
savvy | sophisticated |
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
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.
(sophisticate)
As adjectives the difference between savvy and sophisticated
is that savvy is shrewd, well-informed and perceptive while sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.As verbs the difference between savvy and sophisticated
is that savvy is to understand while sophisticated is past tense of sophisticate.As an interjection savvy
is do you understand.As a noun savvy
is shrewdness.savvy
English
Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
