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. Richard Burr:

   The committee has spent the last 16 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft and analytic work underpinning the intelligence community assessment and sees no reason to dispute the conclusions, the committee continues its investigation, and I am hopeful that this installment of the committee’s work will soon be followed by additional summaries providing the American people with clarity around Russia’s activities regarding U.S. elections. Whether Russian authorities sought to meddle in the 2016 election to help Trump prevail has been a key point of contention between House and Senate intelligence committees. SEVEN KEY HIGHLIGHTS FROM BOMBSHELL WATCHDOG REPORT INTO DOJ, FBI BIAS In May,Senate Intelligence Committee leaders backed the 2017 intel community report that formally accused Russia of trying to interfere in the election to the Trump campaign's benefit. The Russian effort was extensive, sophisticated and ordered by President Putin himself for the purpose of helping Donald Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton, top Senate committee Democrat Mark Warner said in a joint statement at the time. On Tuesday, Warner said the committee's review had confirmed those findings.

2. Robert Ashley:

   Developments in hypersonic propulsion wivolutionize rewarfare by providing the ability to strike targets more quickly, at greater distances, and with greater firepower, china is also developing increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile warheads and hypersonic glide vehicles in an attempt to counter ballistic missile defense systems.

3. Kathleen Sgamma:

   Sometimes you hear politicians who talk about that but you wonder if they will have people in place who understand how to effectively cut through the red tape, i did not expect that the Trump administration would be fairly sophisticated in countering that and willing to do so quickly in the first 100 hundred days.

4. Sacha Sadan:

   It's a much more sophisticated debate, just putting( some firms) in the naughty corner and having a go at them is not going to solve the problem.

5. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev:

   Now it could be luck that they put this thing together, put it at the Boston Marathon finish line, and were able to detonate them so close to each other and sequentially. But it was a pretty sophisticated attack.

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