English Online Dictionary. What means sophisticated? What does sophisticated mean?
English
Etymology
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
Adjective
sophisticated (comparative more sophisticated, superlative most sophisticated)
- Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
- Synonyms: sophisticate, worldly
- Antonym: provincial
- Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
- Synonym: sophisticate
- Complicated, especially of complex technology.
- (obsolete)
- Synonym: sophisticate
- Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
- Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Derived terms
Related terms
- sophisticate
- sophist
- sophistry
- philosophy
Translations
Verb
sophisticated
- simple past and past participle of sophisticate
References
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997