sophisticated.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Meaning & usage
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
Complicated, especially of complex technology.
Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Where this word comes from
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
simple past and past participle of sophisticate
Where this word comes from
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
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