n. a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

adj. composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks"

adj. growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"

adj. of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience"

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

adj. characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world; "worldly goods and advancement"

adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"

adj. inconceivably extended in space or time

adj. applicable to an entire class or group; "is there a generic Asian mind?"

adj. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"

adj. commonly used or supplied; "standard procedure"; "standard car equipment"

adj. conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; "windows of standard width"; "standard sizes"; "the standard fixtures"; "standard brands"; "standard operating procedure"

adj. ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction"

adj. involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"

adj. widely known and spoken of; "her proverbial lateness"; "the proverbial absentminded professor"; "your proverbial dizzy blonde"

adj. being present everywhere at once

adj. spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"

adj. widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"

adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"

adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

adj. many-sided; "an all-around athlete"; "a well-rounded curriculum"

adj. omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; "a door-to-door campaign"; "house-to-house coverage"

adj. broad in scope or content; "encyclopedic knowledge"

adj. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"

adj. having broad power and range and scope; "taking the large view"; "a large effect"; "a large sympathy"

adj. providing for many things at once; "an omnibus law"

adj. full in all respects; "a plenary session of the legislature"; "a diplomat with plenary powers"

adj. existing in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration

adj. including more than a specified category; "a super experiment"

adj. covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups; "an umbrella organization"; "umbrella insurance coverage"

adj. characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"

adj. native to or confined to a certain region; "the islands have a number of interesting endemic species"