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sophisticated

  • adjective

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

Other meanings

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

  2. Complicated, especially of complex technology.

Related words

  • hypersophisticated
  • oversophisticated
  • sophisti-pop
  • sophisticatedly
  • sophisticatedness
  • supersophisticated
  • ultrasophisticated
  • unsophisticated
  • pseudo-sophisticated
  • sophisticated falsificationism

Example sentences

  • “Your proof is sophisticated.”

    Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sophisticated” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.