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cosmopolitan

adjective

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 of cosmopolitan

smart, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
Words Related to cosmopolitan

suave, urbane

civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined

experienced, knowing, practiced, schooled, seasoned

bored, cynical, jaded, skeptical

down-to-earth, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober
Near Antonyms of cosmopolitan

callow, green, inexperienced, raw

parochial, provincial, rustic (also rustical)

philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined

childlike, simple, simpleminded

idealistic, impractical

uncritical, unknowing
Antonyms of cosmopolitan

guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve), unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed

cosmopolitan

noun

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 of cosmopolitan

city slicker, cosmopolite, metropolitan, slicker, sophisticate
Words Related to cosmopolitan

urbanite

worldling
Antonyms of cosmopolitan

bumpkin, hick, provincial, rustic, yokel

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