Sophisticated vs Evolved - What's the difference?
sophisticated | evolved |
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)
(evolve)
To move in regular procession through a system.
* Sir M. Hale
* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)
* (w) (1819-1885)
To change, transform, develop.
* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime
(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
As verbs the difference between sophisticated and evolved
is that sophisticated is (sophisticate) while evolved is (evolve).As an adjective sophisticated
is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.sophisticated
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(en adjective)Antonyms
* (having obtained worldly experience) provincialSynonyms
* (having obtained worldly experience) worldlyVerb
(head)References
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997evolved
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(head)Anagrams
*evolve
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- The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
