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1. Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire
   "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
    
2. Ahead in development; complex or intricate
   "a sophisticated electronic control system";
   - advanced
    
3. Intellectually appealing
   "a sophisticated drama"

1. Make less natural or innocent
   "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
    
2. Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
   "Don't sophisticate my words";
   - twist, twist around, pervert, convolute
    
3. Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
   "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol";
   - doctor, doctor up
    
4. Make more complex or refined
   "a sophisticated design"

See also: blasé, clued-up [Brit, informal], cosmopolitan, disenchanted, elegant, high-tech, hi-tech, informed, intellectual, intelligent, literate, polished, refined, savvy [informal], secular, temporal, urbane, well-informed, widely distributed, worldly, worldly-wise

Type of: adulterate, civilise [Brit], civilize, complicate, cultivate, debase, denote, dilute, educate, elaborate, load, rarefy, rarify [rare], refer, refine, school, stretch, train

Antonym: naif

Encyclopedia: Sophisticated