| Main Entry: | sophistication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, style |
Synonyms: |
composure, elegance, finesse, poise, refinement, savoir faire, savoir vivre, social grace, tact, urbanity, worldliness, worldly wisdom |
Antonyms: |
ingenuousness, naiveté, simplicity |
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
Synonyms: |
breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness |
Antonyms: |
crudeness, inelegance, poor taste, roughness, ugliness |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
Synonyms: |
bodhi, broad-mindedness, civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, open-mindedness, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom |
Antonyms: |
bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
Synonyms: |
acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | finesse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | know-how, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
acumen, adeptness, adroitness, artfulness, artifice, big stick, bluff, cleverness, competence, con, craft, craftiness, cunning, delicacy, diplomacy, discernment, discretion, feint, gimmick, grift, guile, polish, quickness, racket, run-around, ruse, savoir-faire, savvy, skill, sophistication, stratagem, subtlety, tact, trick, wile |
Antonyms: |
ignorance |
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common sense |
Synonyms: |
acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, brains, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, incisiveness, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, rationality, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | judgment is the U.S. preferred spelling while judgement is the British preferred spelling |
Antonyms: |
ignorance, inanity, misjudgment, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | manners |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | polite, refined social behavior |
Synonyms: |
amenities, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, ceremony, civilities, comportment, conduct, courtesy, culture, decorum, demeanor, deportment, dignity, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good breeding, good form, mien, mores, p's and q's, polish, politeness, politesse, propriety, protocol, refinement, social graces, sophistication, taste, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
Synonyms: |
ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, full bloom, fullness, majority, manhood, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, mentality, perfection, postpubescence, prime, prime of life, readiness, ripeness, sophistication, wisdom, womanhood |
Antonyms: |
childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | refinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation, civilization |
Synonyms: |
affability, civility, courtesy, courtliness, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, elegance, enlightenment, erudition, fastidiousness, fine point, fine tuning, fineness, finesse, finish, gentility, gentleness, good breeding, good manners, grace, graciousness, knowledge, lore, nicety, nuance, polish, politeness, politesse, precision, sophistication, style, suavity, subtlety, tact, taste, urbanity |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, crudeness, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | style |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fashionableness |
Synonyms: |
chichi*, comfort, cosmopolitanism, craze, dash, delicacy, dernier cri, dressiness, ease, elegance, fad, flair, grace, grandeur, luxury, mode, panache, polish, rage, refinement, savoir-faire, smartness, sophistication, stylishness, taste, thing*, urbanity, vogue, élan |
Antonyms: |
unstylishness |