sophisticated

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Adjective

sophisticated

1. Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
2. Elegant, refined.
3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
5. (obsolete, UK) Dishonest or misleading.
6. (obsolete, UK) Impure; adulterated.

Synonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience) worldly
• (elegant, refined) refined

Antonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience) provincial

Related terms

• sophisticate
• sophist
• sophistry
• philosophy

Translations

• French: cosmopolite
• German: erfahren, weltgewandt, kultiviert
• Italian: sofisticato
• Portuguese: sofisticado
• Russian: искушённый
• Spanish: de mundo, sofisticado

Translations

• French: chic, raffiné, mondain, sophistiqué
• Portuguese: sofisticado, requintado

Translations

• French: sophistiqué
• German: hochentwickelt, raffiniert, ausgeklügelt
• Italian: sofisticato
• Portuguese: sofisticado
• Russian: сло́жный
• Spanish: sofisticado, complejo, complicado, elaborado

Translations

• French: sophistiqué
• German: raffiniert
• Italian: sofisticato
• Portuguese: sofisticado
• Russian: утончённый
• Spanish: refinado, elegante, sofisticado

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

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