Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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.
6. simple past and past participle of sophisticate

Example Sentences

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.

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

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• more sophisticated
• most sophisticated

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Use sophisticated when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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