English Explanatory Dictionary

sophisticated

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
  2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
  3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
  4. Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
  5. Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
verb
  1. simple past and past participle of sophisticate

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sophisticated.wav

Word forms

sophisticated more sophisticated most sophisticated

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Synonyms

sophisticate worldly polluted tainted adulterated common contaminated corrupted mixed sophisticated

Antonyms

provincial

Related words

sophisticate sophist sophistry philosophy

Derived words

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