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Sophisticated vs Sophisticatedly - What's the difference?

sophisticated | sophisticatedly |

As an adjective sophisticated

is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.

As a verb sophisticated

is (sophisticate).

As an adverb sophisticatedly is

in a sophisticated manner.

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

    sophisticatedly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in a sophisticated manner
  • * {{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He could sing you into tears, and dance you into love, and talk you into wonder; when he drew, you begged for his portrait by himself, and when he wrote, you solicited his autograph. Mr. Philip Withers had taken his moustache to foreign parts, and done the Continent sophisticatedly . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Emerson Hough, title=The Way of a Man, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There stood old Mandy McGovern, her long brown rifle half raised, her finger lying sophisticatedly along the trigger guard, that she might not touch the hair trigger. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=March 10, author=Peter Margasak, title=Spot Check, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=On their third album, Amorica (American), they stretch nicely beyond their Faces evocations, resulting in a pleasantly soulful, groovy, and sophisticatedly accurate recollection of a previous decade. }}