Synonyms of cosmopolitan

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adjective

as in sophisticated

having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience

a college student who now seems conspicuously cosmopolitan after spending his junior year abroad

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sophisticated
• worldly
• smart
• civilized
• polished
• cultured
• bored
• worldly-wise
• pragmatic
• experienced
• urbane
• sober
• cynical
• cultivated
• seasoned
• realistic
• suave
• pragmatical
• refined
• skeptical
• practiced
• knowing
• jaded
• schooled
• down-to-earth

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unsophisticated
• naive
• green
• naïve
• innocent
• unworldly
• ingenuous
• guileless
• parochial
• untutored
• provincial
• rustic
• raw
• inexperienced
• callow
• uncivilized
• uncultured
• simple
• wide-eyed
• childlike
• unrefined
• idealistic
• impractical
• rustical
• uncritical
• simpleminded
• philistine
• unknowing

cosmopolitan

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noun

as in sophisticate

a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers

as someone who had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, she seemed very much the cosmopolitan to her old classmates

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sophisticate
• metropolitan
• cosmopolite
• slicker
• city slicker
• urbanite
• worldling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• provincial
• hick
• rustic
• bumpkin
• yokel