sophisticated
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6.2
- adjective
- /səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtɪd/
:
sofisticado
- Everyone's so sophisticated and mature.
- more sophisticated
- sophisticated understanding
- most sophisticated
There's a lot going on You, you can be very sophisticated about this stuff.
- There's a lot going on You, you can be very sophisticated about this stuff.
- Remember that black is slimming, purple is sophisticated, red is catchy, catches the eye first.
- It isn't it like being like fancy or sophisticated?
- So it has a response to truth or falsehood that's more subtle and sophisticated than my intellectual knowledge.
- And in more sophisticated literature, the good and bad are abstracted.
- Their children can actually have quite sophisticated moral judgments, but they want there to be some sort of reckoning within the stories.
- Such phrases may sound sophisticated, but when going for clarity, Orwell thinks that we should always use one word instead of many whenever we can.
- Her deft and sophisticated analysis of eating patterns has revealed a great deal about who we are as Americans.
Examples
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The academic study of film and television is respectably aligned with the most sophisticated French theories.
Academic text (1990) -
It really is a drink for more sophisticated people.
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We're much more sophisticated than that.
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How could we possibly understand such a sophisticated ritual?
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For this to happen, the training and education needed must be both subtle and sophisticated.
Academic text (2012) -
Students nearest the cut point need more sophisticated decision processes to accurately deliver them to the right intervention conditions.
Academic text (2013) -
To the town children, the refinery students seemed the most worldly-wise and sophisticated of beings.
Fiction book (1993) -
And for me, Purple Rain is like the most emotionally cathartic, the most musically sophisticated song that I can think of.
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The museum exhibition featured sophisticated art pieces that challenged the viewer's understanding of beauty.
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Her sophisticated understanding of world politics impressed the entire audience during the debate.
Synonyms
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3.3
Having an attractive, stylish look that shows good taste
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4.7
Having new, modern ideas or methods that are ahead of others
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8.1
About art or ideas that serious, educated people like
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4.1
Showing elegant, polite manners and good taste
Someone who shows educated, serious tastes in art or books and seems a bit proud
Antonyms
How Subtle
Surface Forms
Morphology
sophisticated = sophisticate (semi-transparent) = sophisticate + ed
Morphologically regular (verb -> past participle/adjective), but the nuance 'appealing to refined intellectual tastes' is a stylistic/semantic specialization that goes beyond simple composition.
Etymology
Sophisticated comes from the Greek root sophos, meaning 'wise', and over time it also came to mean 'cultured' or thoughtful. So a sophisticated taste or idea is one that is 'cultured', subtle, and shows education and careful thought.