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English
Etymology
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
Adjective
sophisticated (comparative more sophisticated, superlative most sophisticated)
- Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
- Synonyms: sophisticate, worldly
- Antonym: provincial
- Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
- Synonym: sophisticate
- Complicated, especially of complex technology.
- (obsolete)
- Synonym: sophisticate
- Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
- Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Derived terms
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Translations
having obtained worldly experience
- Bulgarian: изкушен (bg) (izkušen)
- Catalan: sofisticat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有经验的
- Dutch: wereldwijs (nl)
- Finnish: hienostunut (fi)
- French: cosmopolite (fr)
- German: erfahren (de), weltgewandt, kultiviert (de)
- Greek: έμπειρος (el) (émpeiros), πολύπειρος (el) (polýpeiros)
- Italian: sofisticato (it)
- Latin: urbānus (la)
- Macedonian: запознаен (zapoznaen), способен (sposoben), искусен (iskusen)
- Maori: mātanga
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sofistikert (no)
- Nynorsk: sofistikert
- Polish: obyty
- Portuguese: sofisticado (pt)
- Romanian: sofisticat (ro)
- Russian: искушённый (ru) (iskušónnyj), умудрённый (ru) (umudrjónnyj), о́пытный (ru) (ópytnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: sofisticiran (sh), prefinjen, iskusan (sh), vješt (sh)
- Spanish: de mundo, sofisticado (es)
- Swedish: världsvan (sv), erfaren (sv)
- Turkish: kozmopolit (tr)
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elegant, refined
- Bulgarian: рафиниран (bg) (rafiniran)
- Dutch: gesofisticeerd (nl)
- French: chic (fr), raffiné (fr), mondain (fr), sophistiqué (fr)
- German: kultiviert (de), raffiniert (de)
- Greek: κομψός (el) (kompsós), εκλεπτυσμένος (el) (ekleptysménos)
- Ancient: ἀστεῖος (asteîos)
- Hungarian: kifinomult (hu)
- Latin: urbānus (la)
- Macedonian: префинет (prefinet), рафиниран (rafiniran), отмен (otmen)
- Portuguese: sofisticado (pt), requintado (pt)
- Turkish: rafine (tr), sofistike (tr), şık (tr)
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complicated, especially of technology
- Belarusian: мудрагелісты (mudrahjelisty)
- Bulgarian: усложнен (bg) (usložnen), комплициран (bg) (kompliciran)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 先进的
- Czech: sofistikovaný (cs)
- Dutch: geperfectioneerd (nl)
- Finnish: monimutkainen (fi)
- French: sophistiqué (fr)
- German: hochentwickelt, raffiniert (de), ausgeklügelt (de)
- Greek: σύνθετος (el) (sýnthetos), πολύπλοκος (el) (polýplokos)
- Ancient: πολύπλοκος (polúplokos)
- Hungarian: kifinomult (hu)
- Italian: sofisticato (it)
- Korean: 정교한 (jeonggyohan)
- Macedonian: сложен (mk) (složen)
- Maori: marutuna
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sofistikert (no)
- Nynorsk: sofistikert
- Persian: پیشرفته (fa) (piš-rafte)
- Polish: złożony (pl), skomplikowany (pl)
- Portuguese: sofisticado (pt)
- Romanian: sofisticat (ro), complicat (ro)
- Russian: сло́жный (ru) (slóžnyj), мудрёный (ru) (mudrjónyj), замыслова́тый (ru) (zamyslovátyj)
- Spanish: sofisticado (es), complejo (es), complicado (es), elaborado (es)
- Turkish: komplike (tr)
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appealing to the tastes of an intellectual
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Verb
sophisticated
- simple past and past participle of sophisticate
References
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997