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Prentice vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?

prentice | sophisticated |

As a proper noun prentice

is .

As an adjective sophisticated is

having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.

As a verb sophisticated is

(sophisticate).

prentice

English

Noun

(s)
  • (obsolete) An apprentice.
  • * 1682 , John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire , Act II, scene iv,
    • Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.

    Verb

    (prentic)
  • (obsolete) To apprentice.

    • Synonyms

    * apprentice, 'prentice

    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