Sophisticated

Origin

First English usage circa 1601. Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Full definition of sophisticated

Adjective

1. Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
2. Elegant, refined.
3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
5. (obsolete, UK) Dishonest or misleading.

Antonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience) provincial

Synonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience) worldly

Related terms

• sophisticate
• sophist
• sophistry
• philosophy

Verb

1. sophisticated

   (past of sophisticate)