The difference between Provincial and Sophisticated

When used as adjectives, provincial means of or pertaining to a province, whereas sophisticated means having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté.


Provincial is also noun with the meaning: a person belonging to a province.

check bellow for the other definitions of Provincial and Sophisticated

  1. Provincial as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to a province.

    Examples:

    "a provincial government"

    "a provincial dialect"

  2. Provincial as an adjective:

    Constituting a province.

  3. Provincial as an adjective:

    Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

  4. Provincial as an adjective:

    Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude

  5. Provincial as an adjective:

    narrow; illiberal.

  6. Provincial as an adjective:

    Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

    Examples:

    "a provincial synod"

  7. Provincial as an adjective:

    Limited in outlook; narrow.

  1. Provincial as a noun:

    A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

  2. Provincial as a noun (Roman Catholicism):

    A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.

  3. Provincial as a noun:

    A country bumpkin.

  1. Sophisticated as an adjective:

    Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.

  2. Sophisticated as an adjective:

    Elegant, refined.

  3. Sophisticated as an adjective:

    Complicated, especially of complex technology.

  4. Sophisticated as an adjective:

    Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.

  5. Sophisticated as an adjective (obsolete, UK):

    Dishonest or misleading.

  6. Sophisticated as an adjective (obsolete, UK):

    Impure; adulterated.

  1. Sophisticated as a verb:

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