sophisticated

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Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin - sophisticatus.

Adjective

sophisticated

1. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

   Synonyms: sophisticate, worldly

   Antonyms: provincial

2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.

   Synonyms: sophisticate

3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. (obsolete)

   Synonyms: sophisticate

   1. Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
   2. Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

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
• German: kultiviert, raffiniert
• 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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