sophisticated
adjective
(of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive.
oversophisticated
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a word derived from
sophisticated.
Example Sentences
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Like the oversophisticated Hellenists in Cavafy’s poem, they have been secretly waiting for the barbarians all their lives.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 19, 2015
This urge has, it turns out, resulted in a series of cunning traps laid for the oversophisticated.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013
He would build squadrons of nimble F-16 jet fighters instead of expensive, oversophisticated F-18s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps Josh's more than half-right and I'm oversophisticated.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham
Also his sense of beauty is oversophisticated and wants originality.
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold
