sophisticated

Meanings

Verb

• make less natural or innocent
  • "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
• make more complex or refined
  • "a sophisticated design"
• simple past and past participle of sophisticate

Adjective

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire
  • "sophisticated young socialites"
  • "a sophisticated audience"
  • "a sophisticated lifestyle"
  • "a sophisticated book"

Adjective Satellite

• ahead in development; complex or intricate
  • "a sophisticated electronic control system"
• intellectually appealing
  • "a sophisticated drama"

Adj

• Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
• Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
• Complicated, especially of complex technology.
• 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.

Synonyms

advanced, convolute, doctor, doctor up, pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around, worldly

Antonyms

naive, provincial

Related Words

philosophy, sophist, sophisticate, sophistry