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sophisticated

/sʌfˈɪstʌkˌeɪtɪd/adjective5 syllables

Sophisticated means: having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire.

Synonyms for sophisticated21

adjective, as in having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

blase, worldly, intelligent, well-informed, polished, refined, urbane, worldly-wise, cosmopolitan, widely distributed, disenchanted, elegant, informed, literate, secular, temporal

adjective, as in ahead in development; complex or intricate

advanced, high-tech, hi-tech

adjective, as in intellectually appealing

intellectual

also used for sophisticated

sophisticate

Includes material from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Opposites of sophisticated

naive

What does sophisticated mean?3

adjective

1

having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire“sophisticated young socialites”

2

ahead in development; complex or intricate“advanced technology”

3

intellectually appealing“a sophisticated drama”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Sophisticated in a sentence

  • Mathematicians are creative artists, their artworks being sophisticated constructs of ideas and aesthetic proofs.MUIRIEL
  • Mathematicians are creative artists, their artwork being sophisticated constructs of ideas and aesthetic proofs.sundown
  • Lojban can sound ridiculous, but it can be very sophisticated.nonong
  • The engineer demonstrated how to operate the sophisticated system.CK
  • The readers of that book think themselves sophisticated.unknown
  • I felt utterly out of place among those sophisticated people.CM
  • Modern finance is becoming increasingly complicated and sophisticated.CM
  • It aims to furnish factories and homes with sophisticated robots.unknown

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