Cultured vs. Sophisticated — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Cultured and Sophisticated
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Cultured
Educated, polished, and refined; cultivated.
Sophisticated
Having or showing much worldly knowledge or cultural refinement
A sophisticated businesswoman who is unlikely to be outmaneuvered.
A sophisticated appraisal of the movie.
Cultured
Produced under artificial and controlled conditions
Cultured pearls.
Sophisticated
Very complex or complicated
The latest and most sophisticated technology.
Cultured
Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
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Sophisticated
Suitable for or appealing to the tastes of sophisticates
A sophisticated drama.
Cultured
Artificially developed.
Cultured voice
Cultured plant
Sophisticated
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Cultured
Simple past tense and past participle of culture
Sophisticated
Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
Cultured
Under culture; cultivated.
Sophisticated
Complicated, especially of complex technology.
Cultured
Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments.
The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Sophisticated
(obsolete)
Cultured
Marked by refinement in taste and manners;
Cultivated speech
Cultured Bostonians
Cultured tastes
A genteel old lady
Polite society
Sophisticated
Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
Sophisticated
Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Sophisticated
Simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate
Sophisticated
Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir faire;
Sophisticated young socialites
A sophisticated audience
A sophisticated lifestyle
A sophisticated book
Sophisticated
Ahead in development; complex or intricate;
Advanced technology
A sophisticated electronic control system
Sophisticated
Marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel;
The sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite
Urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris
Sophisticated
Intellectually appealing;
A sophisticated drama
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