sophisticated

English

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From 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.
6. (obsolete, UK) Impure; adulterated.

Synonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience): worldly
• (elegant, refined): refined

Antonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience): provincial

Related terms

• sophisticate
• sophist
• sophistry
• philosophy

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)

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)
• Portuguese: sofisticado (pt), requintado
• Turkish: rafine (tr), sofistike (tr), şık (tr)

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)

appealing to the tastes of an intellectual

• Bulgarian: изтънчен (bg) (iztǎnčen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精炼的

• Finnish: hienostunut (fi), sivistynyt (fi)
• French: sophistiqué (fr)
• German: raffiniert (de)
• Greek: εγκεφαλικός (el) (egkefalikós)
• Italian: sofisticato (it)
• Macedonian: префинет (prefinet)
• Maori: mātanga

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sofistikert (no)

  Nynorsk: sofistikert

• Polish: wyszukany (pl), wyrafinowany (pl), wymyślny
• Portuguese: sofisticado (pt)
• Romanian: rafinat (ro), elegant (ro), sofisticat (ro)
• Russian: утончённый (ru) (utončónnyj), изощрённый (ru) (izoščrjónnyj)
• Spanish: refinado (es), elegante (es), sofisticado (es)
• Turkish: sofistike (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} mondän (de)
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} ionnsaichte, ^{(please verify)} iùlmhor, ^{(please verify)} grinn, ^{(please verify)} foghlaimte

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} erudito (es)

Verb

sophisticated

1. simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

References

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997