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/səfˈɪstəkˌeɪtɪd/ /səfˈɪstɪkˌeɪtəd/ Listen

Sophisticated

adjective

1.

Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire. "A sophisticated audience" , "A sophisticated lifestyle" , "A sophisticated book" Antonym: naive.

2.

Ahead in development; complex or intricate. Synonym: advanced. "A sophisticated electronic control system"

3.

Intellectually appealing.

Sophisticate

verb

(past & past part. sophisticated; pres. part. sophisticating)

1.

Make less natural or innocent.

2.

Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive. Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around.

3.

Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive. Synonyms: doctor, doctor up.

4.

Make more complex or refined.

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"Sophisticated" Quotes from Famous Books

... creature, even more enticing than a siren rising from the water. He noticed the animals carved over the door and returned to the house of the archbishop with his head full of diabolical longings and his entrails sophisticated. ...

— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac

... was that, seated beside his desk, in an easy chair, was a striking looking woman, not exactly young, but of an age that is perhaps more interesting than youth, certainly more sophisticated. She, too, I noticed, had a tense, excited expression on her face. As Kennedy and I entered she ...

— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve

... "coarse"—and many of their sons and daughters are even now ashamed to think what "savages" their parents were! In their mode of life, they sought comfort, not "appearances;" and many things which their more sophisticated descendants deem ...

— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel

... cross, say Market street at Third, I run. I take my life and my bundles in my hand and run, darting swift glances to the left and to the right. It looks "hick." I know it looks "hick." And I care. But I prefer to be alive and countrified than sophisticated in an ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... hard to find their English equivalent. Tapestries of verdure and of personnages describe the two general classes, the former being any charming mass of greenery, from the Gothic millefleurs, and curling leaves with animals beneath, to the lovely landscapes of sophisticated park and garden which made Beauvais famous in the Eighteenth Century. Tapisseries des personnages have, as the name implies, the human figure as the prominent part of the design. The shuttle or bobbin of the high loom is called ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

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