The difference between Sophisticated and Worldly

When used as adjectives, sophisticated means having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté, whereas worldly means concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

Worldly is also adverb with the meaning: in a worldly manner.

check bellow for the other definitions of Sophisticated and Worldly

  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:

  1. Worldly as an adjective:

    Concerned with human or earthly matters, physical as opposed to spiritual.

  2. Worldly as an adjective:

    Concerned with secular rather than sacred matters.

  3. Worldly as an adjective:

    Sophisticated, especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world.

  1. Worldly as an adverb:

    In a worldly manner.

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