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sophisticated adjective

  • Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
 hienostunut, sivistynyt
  • Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
 hienostunut
  • Complicated, especially of complex technology.
 monimutkainen

sophisticate verb

  /səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/ , /səˈfɪstɪkət/
  • To make (something) more sophisticated; to develop, to refine. [from late 18th c.]
 jalostaa, olla sofistinen, sivistää, tehdä hienostuneeksi, tehdä hienostuneemmaksi
  • To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
 käyttää harhaanjohtavassa merkityksessä
  • (also, figuratively) To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.). [from early 15th c.]
 sivistää, soveltaa keinotekoista tekniikkaa
  • (archaic) To apply an artificial technique to (something).
 soveltaa keinotekoista tekniikkaa

sophisticate noun

  /səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/ , /səˈfɪstɪkət/
  • A person who is sophisticated, or who has sophisticated tastes. [from early 20th c.]
 hienostunut
sophisticated worldly
sofistikoitunut
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