sophisticated
adjective
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- Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
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sophistiqué,
raffiné,
chic,
mondain
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- Complicated, especially of complex technology.
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sophistiqué
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- Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
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cosmopolite
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sophist
noun
/ˈsoʊfɪst/
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/ˈsɒfɪst/
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- One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
- (figurative, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
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sophiste
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sophisticate
verb
/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/
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/səˈfɪstɪkət/
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- (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.]
- To make (something) more sophisticated; to develop, to refine. [from late 18th c.]
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civiliser
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