Added 9 October 2026
sophisticated
adjective
In Latin: urbānus Wiktionary
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- Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
- Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
- Complicated, especially of complex technology.
verb
- simple past and past participle of sophisticate
Origin
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
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