advanced

Adjective

• situated ahead or going before
  • an advance party
    
  • at that time the most advanced outpost was still east of the Rockies
    

• (of societies) highly developed especially in technology or industry
  • advanced societies
    
  • an advanced country technologically
    

• far along in time
  • a man of advanced age
    
  • advanced in years
    
  • a ripe old age
    
  • the ripe age of 90
    

• ahead in development; complex or intricate
  • advanced technology
    
  • a sophisticated electronic control system
    

• at a higher level in training or knowledge or skill
  • an advanced degree
    
  • an advanced text in physics
    
  • special seminars for small groups of advanced students at the University
    

• ahead of the times
  • the advanced teaching methods
    
  • had advanced views on the subject
    
  • a forward-looking corporation
    
  • is British industry innovative enough?
    

• comparatively late in a course of development
  • the illness had reached an advanced stage
    
  • an advanced state of exhaustion
    

• farther along in physical or mental development
  • the child's skeletal age was classified as `advanced'
    
  • children in the advanced classes in elementary school read far above grade average
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  advance(a) , advanced(a) , in advance(p) , ripe , sophisticated , forward-looking , innovative , modern