sophisticated
Forms
- Comparative
- more sophisticated
- Superlative
- most sophisticated
Definitions
1.Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
2.Complicated, especially of complex technology.
- The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.
3.Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
1.simple past and past participle of sophisticate
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3780
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
First English usage circa 1601.
From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.