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Sophisticated   /səfˈɪstəkˌeɪtɪd/  /səfˈɪstɪkˌeɪtəd/   Listen
Sophisticated

adjective
1.
Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire.  "A sophisticated audience" , "A sophisticated lifestyle" , "A sophisticated book"
2.
Ahead in development; complex or intricate.  Synonym: advanced.  "A sophisticated electronic control system"
3.
Intellectually appealing.


Sophisticate

verb
(past & past part. sophisticated; pres. part. sophisticating)
1.
Make less natural or innocent.
2.
Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.  Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around.
3.
Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.  Synonyms: doctor, doctor up.
4.
Make more complex or refined.





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"Sophisticated" Quotes from Famous Books



... stirred. Had it been her own people who came and knelt about her bed, lifting their voices in the plain prayers she was accustomed to, it might have been different; but this well-to-do clergyman, with his sophisticated speech, seemed foreign to her, and failed to draw her ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
... people who make their meat of tragedy—and there are a great many of them in all enlightened centres of thought—shook their heads and were sorry. They thought she couldn't live; and they also thought it much, much better that she shouldn't. For there was nothing left in life for that sophisticated creature but a narrow cottage in a stony field, ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... tall, blond, brunette, they were without exception of the class indiscriminately lumped as ladies. Since you couldn't go to the devil because you had married a lady, even on the wild hypothesis that one of these sophisticated beings would without introduction or formality marry him, it would be better not to let himself in for the absurdity of the proposal. When there was a break in the procession, he darted across the street and made his way into ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King
... whole East, except his mother, Aristotle, and a few Athenian pedants, believed this to be true. But now, should I nowadays declare myself the son of the Eternal Father, there isn't a fishwife who would not hiss me. No, the nations are too sophisticated, there is nothing ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... become at the sight of this creature, even more enticing than a siren rising from the water. He noticed the animals carved over the door and returned to the house of the archbishop with his head full of diabolical longings and his entrails sophisticated. ...
— Droll Stories, Volume 1 • Honore de Balzac


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