sophisticated

English

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Adjective

sophisticated (comparative more sophisticated, superlative most sophisticated)

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

Translations

having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan

• Dutch: wereldwijs (nl)
• Finnish: hienostunut (fi)
• German: erfahren, weltgewandt
• Italian: sofisticato (it)
• Macedonian: запознаен (mk) (zapóznaen) m, способен (mk) (spósoben) m, искусен (mk) (ískusen) m
• Norwegian: sostifikert (no)

• Polish: obyty (pl) m
• Portuguese: sofisticado (pt) m
• Romanian: sofisticat (ro)
• Russian: искушённый (iskušónnyj), умудрённый (umudr'ónyj), опытный (ópytnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: sofisticiran (sh) m, prefinjen (sh) m, iskusan (sh), vješt (sh)
• Spanish: de mundo, sofisticado
• Swedish: världsvan (sv), erfaren (sv)

complicated, especially of complex technology

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 复杂 (cmn)

• Dutch: geperfectioneerd (nl)
• Finnish: hienostunut (fi), monimutkainen (fi)
• Italian: sofisticato (it)
• Macedonian: сложен (mk) (slóžen) m

• Polish: złożony (pl) m, skomplikowany (pl) m
• Romanian: sofisticat (ro), complicat (ro) m and n
• Russian: сложный (slóžnyj), мудрёный (mudr'ónyj), замысловатый (zamyslovátyj)
• Spanish: sofisticado (es), complejo (es), complicado (es), elaborado (es)

appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral

• Finnish: hienostunut (fi), sivistynyt (fi)
• German: raffiniert (de)
• Italian: sofisticato (it)
• Macedonian: префинет (mk) (préfinet) m

• Polish: wyszukany (pl) m, wyrafinowany (pl) m, wymyślny (pl) m
• Romanian: rafinat (ro), elegant (ro), sofisticat (ro)
• Russian: утончённый (utončónnyj), изощрённый (izoš'r'ónnyj)
• Spanish: refinado (es), elegante (es), sofisticado (es)

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• French: chic, raffiné, mondain, sophistiqué
• German: mondän

• Scottish Gaelic: ionnsaichte, iùlmhor, grinn, foghlaimte
• Spanish: erudito

Verb

sophisticated

1. simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

References

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997