Sophisticated vs. Modern — What's the Difference?

Having or showing much worldly knowledge or cultural refinement

Of or relating to recent times or the present

Very complex or complicated

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date

Suitable for or appealing to the tastes of sophisticates

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology

Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

Avant-garde; experimental.

Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.

Often Modern(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages

Complicated, especially of complex technology.

One who lives in modern times.

(obsolete)

One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.

Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.

(Printing) Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.

Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

Simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir faire;

Someone who lives in modern times.

Ahead in development; complex or intricate;

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

Marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel;

New and common; trite; commonplace.

Intellectually appealing;

A person of modern times; - opposed to ancient.

A contemporary person

A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

Relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

Ahead of the times;

Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;