sophisticated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   intellectually appealing

   a sophisticated drama

2. 2
   adj

   having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

   sophisticated young socialites

3. 3
   adj

   Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

   Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.

4. 4
   adj

   Complicated, especially of complex technology.

   The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.

5. 5
   adj

   ahead in development

6. 6
   adj

   Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.

7. 7
   adj

   Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.

8. 8
   adj

   Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.