As adjectives the difference between sophisticated and unpretentious
is that sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan while unpretentious is simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
As a verb sophisticated
is (sophisticate).
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
unpretentious
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
Synonyms
* See
Antonyms
* pretentious
Derived terms
* unpretentiously
* unpretentiousness