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Sophisticated

adj, verb

Definitions

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

    "Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences."

  2. 2
    Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
  3. 3
    Complicated, especially of complex technology.

    "The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said."

  4. 4
    Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure. obsolete
  5. 5
    Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way. obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    ahead in development; complex or intricate wordnet
  2. 2
    intellectually appealing wordnet
  3. 3
    having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of sophisticate form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Etymology 2

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

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