sophisticated

[ suh-fis-ti-key-tid ]
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adjective
  1. (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite;the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.

  2. pleasing or satisfactory to the tastes of sophisticates, or people who are educated, cultured, and worldly-wise: sophisticated music.

  1. deceptive; misleading.

  2. complex or intricate, as a system, process, piece of machinery, or the like: a sophisticated electronic control system.

  3. of, for, or reflecting educated taste, knowledgeable use, etc.: Many Americans are drinking more sophisticated wines now.

Origin of sophisticated

1
First recorded in 1595–1605; sophisticate + -ed2

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Other words from sophisticated

  • so·phis·ti·cat·ed·ly, adverb
  • hy·per·so·phis·ti·cat·ed, adjective
  • hy·per·so·phis·ti·cat·ed·ly, adverb
  • o·ver·so·phis·ti·cat·ed, adjective
  • su·per·so·phis·ti·cat·ed, adjective
  • ul·tra·so·phis·ti·cat·ed, adjective
  • ul·tra·so·phis·ti·cat·ed·ly, adverb

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How to use sophisticated in a sentence

  • He possessed the same personal charm as Tchaikovsky, but was far more sophisticated and self-conscious.

  • I suppose I can't hope to be quite such a belle as if I had lived in those less-sophisticated days, but who knows?

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
  • Accustomed to women of a more sophisticated class, Jean had at first taken her navet for the height of subtlety.

    The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • The subject of the moral reflections at the end is self-delusion in the particular form of sophisticated vanity.

    Aesop Dress'd | Bernard Mandeville
  • We have a very conservative, fastidious, and sophisticated constituency; and this is one of the limitations by which we are bound.

    Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for sophisticated

sophisticated

/ (səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtɪd) /


adjective
  1. having refined or cultured tastes and habits

  2. appealing to sophisticates: a sophisticated restaurant

  1. unduly refined or cultured

  2. pretentiously or superficially wise

  3. (of machines, methods, etc) complex and refined

Derived forms of sophisticated

  • sophisticatedly, adverb

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