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
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Provincial as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to a province.
Examples:
"a provincial government"
"a provincial dialect"
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Provincial as an adjective:
Constituting a province.
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Provincial as an adjective:
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
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Provincial as an adjective:
Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
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Provincial as an adjective:
narrow; illiberal.
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Provincial as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
Examples:
"a provincial synod"
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Provincial as an adjective:
Limited in outlook; narrow.
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Provincial as a noun:
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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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.
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Provincial as a noun:
A country bumpkin.
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Sophisticated as an adjective:
Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
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Sophisticated as an adjective:
Elegant, refined.
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Sophisticated as an adjective:
Complicated, especially of complex technology.
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Sophisticated as an adjective:
Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
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Sophisticated as an adjective (obsolete, UK):
Dishonest or misleading.
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Sophisticated as an adjective (obsolete, UK):
Impure; adulterated.
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Sophisticated as a verb: