advanced

English

From advance +‎ -ed.

advanced

advanced (comparative more advanced or further advanced, superlative most advanced or furthest advanced)

At or close to the state of the art. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Involving greater complexity; more difficult, elaborate or specialized.
The option can be found under advanced settings.

I'm taking a course in advanced knitting techniques.
Having moved forward in time or space (e.g. advanced ignition timing).
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 3, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
  a gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles
- 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
  The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
In a late stage of development or education; having greatly progressed beyond an initial stage.
This is an advanced prototype, it already has most of the features the final product will have.

This book is suitable for advanced learners of English.
(phonetics) Pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract.
Synonym: fronted

Antonyms: retracted, backed
(Philippines, of a clock or watch) Indicating a time ahead of the correct time.^[1]
Synonyms: fast, gain

at or close to state of the art

Arabic: مُتَقَدِّم (ar) (mutaqaddim)
Bulgarian: напреднал (bg) (naprednal)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 先進的／先进的 (zh) (xiānjìn de)
Czech: pokročilý, vyspělý (cs)
Danish: avanceret
Dutch: gevorderd (nl)
Esperanto: altnivela, progresinta
Finnish: kehittynyt (fi)
French: avancé (fr)
German: fortgeschritten (de)
Greek: προχωρημένος (el) m (prochoriménos), ανώτερος (el) m (anóteros), προηγμένος (el) (proïgménos)
Hungarian: fejlett (hu), kiforrott (hu)
Italian: avanzato (it), superiore (it), sofisticato (it)
Japanese: 高度の (ja) (こうどの, kōdo-no), 高尚の (ja) (こうしょうの, kōshō-no)
Latin: prōvectus
Maori: whatutoto
Norwegian:
Bokmål: avansert (no)

Nynorsk: avansert
Persian: پیشرفته (fa) (pišrafte)
Polish: zaawansowany (pl)
Portuguese: avançado (pt)
Russian: продви́нутый (ru) (prodvínutyj), передово́й (ru) (peredovój)
Slovak: pokročilý, vyspelý
Spanish: avanzado (es)

involving greater complexity; more difficult, elaborate or specialized — see also enhanced

in a late stage of development or education; having greatly progressed beyond an initial stage

phonetics: pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract