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Sophisticated vs Practiced - What's the difference?

sophisticated | practiced |

As adjectives the difference between sophisticated and practiced

is that sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan while practiced is skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice.

As verbs the difference between sophisticated and practiced

is that sophisticated is past tense of sophisticate while practiced is past tense of practice.

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

    practiced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • skillful, proficient, knowledgeable or expert as a result of practice

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (practice)