sophisticated

1. 1
   adjective

   Knowing a lot about the world and how people act, and not easily fooled.

   Like someone who has traveled the world and is hard to surprise.

   She seemed very sophisticated for someone so young.

   After years abroad, she returned a sophisticated woman who handled every situation calmly.

   Similarworldly

   Oppositeprovincial

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2. 2
   adjective

   Made for people with refined taste, clever and elegant rather than simple.

   Like a fancy grown-up meal instead of a simple kids' snack.

   The gallery displayed a sophisticated collection of modern art.

   Their tasting menu felt sophisticated, made for adventurous diners.

   Similarrefined, subtle, polished, elegant, cultured

   Oppositecrude, simplistic, lowbrow, unrefined

3. 3
   adjective

   Very advanced and complicated, like high-tech machines or systems.

   Like a machine with thousands of tiny parts all working together.

   Modern phones use sophisticated software to recognize faces.

   The lab built a sophisticated robot to run the tests.

   Similaradvanced, complex, intricate, elaborate, high-tech

   Oppositesimple, basic, primitive, crude

4. 4
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of sophisticate. Use this form when the action already happened.

   Years in the city had sophisticated her once-simple tastes.

   The merchant sophisticated the wine with cheaper spirits.

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