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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having acquired worldly knowledge or refinement; lacking natural simplicity or naiveté.
- adj. Very complex or complicated: the latest and most sophisticated technology.
- adj. Suitable for or appealing to the tastes of sophisticates: a sophisticated drama.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
- adj. elegant, refined.
- adj. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
- adj. Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
- adj. Dishonest or misleading (rare; primarily British English).
WordNet 3.0
- adj. ahead in development; complex or intricate
- adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire
- adj. intellectually appealing
Etymologies
- Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticāre, sophisticāt-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophistēs, sophist; see sophist.
Examples
“They gutted the house in order to create what they describe as a sophisticated cottage with a European feeling.”
“Now that's what I call sophisticated argumentation!”
“The Spruce Pine-related losses follow North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's June uncovering of what he described as a sophisticated real estate fraud involving a planned community, the Village of Penland, in the western part of the state.”
“He talked ant what he called the sophisticated design.”
“It started here, absolutely," said Sir Brian Urquhart, a nonagenarian former under secretary general, recalling the birth of what he described as a sophisticated if entangled plan.”
“Mr. Tobok could not say for sure that the attacks, which he described as sophisticated, and which appeared to originate from Chinese computers, were in fact sanctioned by China's government.”
“We had a good moan at the supplier and the problem seems to have gone away ... now that's what you call sophisticated quality control Interested in this topic?”
“Google's new stance on China was triggered by what it described as a sophisticated computer attack orchestrated from within the country.”
“Google threatened this week to pull out of China after what it called a sophisticated hacking attack believed to be aimed at human rights activists.”
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Topical
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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It's Complicated
Words about complication, complexity.
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Shopping From Home (For Words)
The list begins with evocative words I found in a Bed Bath & Beyond catalog, but other words in a similar vein are welcome, with two simple rules: they must come out of catalogs, and they can't...
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Words I don't know.
lexicographer, scrutinize, linguistics, prune, sophisticated
reesetee Blahaha! Thanks! Jul 15, 2009
chained_bear The Sophisticated Song. (if at work, use headphones) Jul 15, 2009
reesetee In rare and antique books, this refers to a volume on which repairs have been made that involve additions to the original--for example, missing chips of paper are filled in and colored to match the missing portion, or page corners are replaced with new paper. Feb 22, 2007