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Sophisticated vs Refind - What's the difference?

sophisticated | refind |

As verbs the difference between sophisticated and refind

is that sophisticated is (sophisticate) while refind is to find something again.

As an adjective sophisticated

is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.

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

    refind

    English

    Verb

  • To find something again.
  • *, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.300:
    • Cardan, in his fifth book of Wisdom, gives an instance in a smith of Milan, a fellow-citizen of his, one Galeus de Rubeis, that being commended for refinding of an instrument of Archimedes, for joy ran mad.
  • * {{quote-news, 2008, November 22, Brian A. Howey, The Obama 'Landslide' Impact, Howey Politics Indiana citation
    • , passage=Clark now sees an opportunity to help Republicans refind their soul and message.}}

    Synonyms

    * rediscover

    Anagrams

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