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cosmopolitan
Synonyms and Antonyms of cosmopolitan
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 worldly-wise, smart, sophisticated, worldlyRelated Words suave, urbane; civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined; experienced, knowing, practiced, schooled, seasoned; bored, cynical, jaded, skeptical; down-to-earth, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, soberNear Antonyms callow, green, inexperienced, raw; parochial, provincial, rustic (also rustical); philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined; childlike, simple, simpleminded; idealistic, impractical; uncritical, unknowingAntonyms guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed
cosmopolitan
Synonyms and Antonyms of cosmopolitan
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 city slicker, cosmopolite, metropolitan, slicker, sophisticate Related Words urbanite; worldling Antonyms bumpkin, hick, provincial, rustic, yokel
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