Sophisticated vs Crude - What's the difference?
sophisticated | crude |
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)
Being in a natural state.
Characterized by simplicity, especially something not carefully or expertly made.
Lacking concealing elements.
Lacking tact or taste.
(statistics) Being in an unanalyzed form.
(archaic) Immature or unripe.
(lb) pertaining to the uninflected stem of a word
Any substance in its natural state.
Crude oil.
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As adjectives the difference between sophisticated and crude
is that sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan while crude is being in a natural state.As a verb sophisticated
is (sophisticate).As a noun crude is
any substance in its natural state.sophisticated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* (having obtained worldly experience) provincialSynonyms
* (having obtained worldly experience) worldlyVerb
(head)References
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997crude
English
Adjective
(er)- crude oil
- a crude shelter
- a crude truth
- a crude remark
- crude data
Synonyms
* (being in a natural state) raw, unrefined, unprocessed * (characterized by simplicity) primitive, rough, rude, rudimentary * (lacking concealing elements) obvious, plain, unadorned, undisguised * (lacking tact or taste) blunt, coarse, earthy, gross, stark, uncultivated, vulgar * raw * See'' immature''' ''or'' ' unripe * See alsoAntonyms
* (being in a natural state) refined, processedDerived terms
* crudeness * crude oil * crude material * crude form/crudeformNoun
(en noun)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}