Antonyms for sophisticated
səˈfɪs tɪˌkeɪ tɪdso·phis·ti·cat·ed

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1. sophisticatedadjective

   Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.

   Synonyms:
   worldly

   Antonyms:
   provincial

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1. sophisticatedadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   nonintellectual, ingenuous, naif, simple, naive, credulous, fleeceable, dewy-eyed, innocent, childlike, wide-eyed, low-tech, unworldly, round-eyed, unsophisticated, green, gullible, simple-minded

   Synonyms:
   advanced

2. advanced, sophisticatedadjective

   ahead in development; complex or intricate

   "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"

   Antonyms:
   green, nonintellectual, simple-minded, unsophisticated, naif, round-eyed, childlike, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed, ingenuous, low-tech, simple, credulous, gullible, fleeceable, naive, unworldly, innocent

   Synonyms:
   innovative, advance(a), advanced, modern, ripe, advanced(a), forward-looking, in advance(p)

3. sophisticatedadjective

   intellectually appealing

   "a sophisticated drama"

   Antonyms:
   wide-eyed, nonintellectual, dewy-eyed, unworldly, naif, simple-minded, green, credulous, fleeceable, ingenuous, childlike, innocent, gullible, simple, unsophisticated, low-tech, naive, round-eyed

   Synonyms:
   advanced

How to use sophisticated in a sentence?

1. Elizabeth Scala -LRB- @swiftieprof -RRB-:

   I want to take what Taylor Swift fans can already do at a sophisticated level, tease it out for them a bit with a different vocabulary, and then show them how, in fact, Taylor Swift draws on richer literary traditions in Read MoreStudents songwriting, both topically but also formally in terms of how Read MoreStudents uses references, metaphors, and clever manipulations of words, i'll be showing students that these operations and interpretive moves one makes when reading Read MoreStudents songs are appropriate to all forms of writing.

2. Nina Garcia:

   Considering who is nominated, I think it is going to be a cross between very sophisticated and very feminine.

3. Nancy Pelosi:

   No, I'm not trying to run out the clock, let's get sophisticated about this, OK ?

4. Edward Dempsey:

   I would like to think that people who are in our fund recognize we are five years into a bull market built upon central bank intervention. I think that investors in our fund are a more sophisticated type who looking for risk management techniques.

5. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology:

   The security theater we are witnessing in our election system boasting the illusion of security via ‘clunky as heck’ and air gap defense will do nothing against the real and sophisticated adversarial landscape that is zeroing in on our democracy

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