More definitions of "advanced":
- (adj): (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry.
Example: "Advanced societies"; "an advanced country technologically"
- (adj): Ahead of the times.
Example: "The advanced teaching methods"; "had advanced views on the subject"
Synonyms: forward-looking, innovative, modern
- (adj): Far along in time.
Example: "A man of advanced age"; "advanced in years"
Synonyms: ripe
- (adj): Farther along in physical or mental development.
Example: "The child's skeletal age was classified as 'advanced'"; "children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average"
- (adj): Comparatively late in a course of development.
Example: "The illness had reached an advanced stage"; "an advanced state of exhaustion"
- (adj): Ahead in development; complex or intricate.
Example: "Advanced technology"
Synonyms: sophisticated
- (adj): Situated ahead or going before.
Example: "At that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies"
Synonyms: advance, in advance
Famous quotes containing the word advanced:
“Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.... Advanced art today is no longer a cause—it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)