Sophisticated

Quick meaning: Sophisticated is an adjective meaning Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

Synonyms for sophisticated

Depending on context, synonyms include sophisticate, worldly, polluted, tainted, adulterated, common.

Antonyms for sophisticated

Common opposites include provincial, naive, naif.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include worldly-wise, intelligent, intellectual, urbane, refined, well-informed.

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