sophisticated
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Definition of sophisticated
6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
“Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.”
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adj
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Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
“Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.”
- 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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Complicated, especially of complex technology.
“The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.”
- (obsolete)Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
- (obsolete)Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
verb
- (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of sophisticate
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
Words you can make from sophisticated
200+ playable · top: SOPHISTICATE (19 pts)
Best play sophisticate 19 points10-letter words
6 words9-letter words
33 words- CADETSHIP 17 pts
- PITHECOID 17 pts
- SCAPHOIDS 17 pts
- CHASSEPOT 16 pts
- PASTICHES 16 pts
- PATCHIEST 16 pts
- PISTACHES 16 pts
- PISTACHIO 16 pts
- PITCHIEST 16 pts
- POACHIEST 16 pts
- POSTICHES 16 pts
- SOPHISTIC 16 pts
- CHASTISED 15 pts
- DIATHETIC 15 pts
- ATHEISTIC 14 pts
- ETHICISTS 14 pts
- HEPATITIS 14 pts
- POSTHASTE 14 pts
- POSTHEATS 14 pts
- TACHISTES 14 pts
- THIOTEPAS 14 pts
- DIATHESIS 13 pts
- DITHEISTS 13 pts
- EPISTATIC 13 pts
- OPACITIES 13 pts
- OPTICISTS 13 pts
- ATHETOSIS 12 pts
- DACOITIES 12 pts
- DIOPTASES 12 pts
- DISSIPATE 12 pts
- POSTDATES 12 pts
- ISOSTATIC 11 pts
- PASTITSIO 11 pts
8-letter words
98 words- DESPATCH 16 pts
- DIPHASIC 16 pts
- DISPATCH 16 pts
- SCAPHOID 16 pts
- CHIPSETS 15 pts
- HEPATICS 15 pts
- HOSPICES 15 pts
- ISOPACHS 15 pts
- PACHISIS 15 pts
- PASTICHE 15 pts
- PATHETIC 15 pts
- PISTACHE 15 pts
- POSTICHE 15 pts
- POTICHES 15 pts
- SHOEPACS 15 pts
- CATHODES 14 pts
- DASHPOTS 14 pts
- DIPSHITS 14 pts
- DISTICHS 14 pts
- PITHEADS 14 pts
- POTHEADS 14 pts
- SHIPSIDE 14 pts
- STITCHED 14 pts
- ACHIOTES 13 pts
- CHASTEST 13 pts
- CHASTISE 13 pts
- CHITTIES 13 pts
- DESPOTIC 13 pts
- DISCEPTS 13 pts
- EPIDOTIC 13 pts
- EPISODIC 13 pts
- ETHICIST 13 pts
- HOSPITIA 13 pts
- ISOTACHS 13 pts
- ITCHIEST 13 pts
- PATHOSES 13 pts
- PEASCODS 13 pts
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- PODCASTS 13 pts
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- POTASHES 13 pts
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- SPICATED 13 pts
- STITCHES 13 pts
- TACHISTE 13 pts
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- TEASHOPS 13 pts
- THEISTIC 13 pts
- THIOTEPA 13 pts
- ATHETOID 12 pts
- CASSIOPE 12 pts
- DASHIEST 12 pts
- DISHIEST 12 pts
- DITHEIST 12 pts
- ECTOPIAS 12 pts
- EPISCIAS 12 pts
- ESCAPIST 12 pts
- OPTICIST 12 pts
- POTASSIC 12 pts
- SHADIEST 12 pts
- SPACIEST 12 pts
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- STITHIED 12 pts
- ACIDOSES 11 pts
- ACIDOSIS 11 pts
- ADIPOSES 11 pts
- ADIPOSIS 11 pts
- ATHEISTS 11 pts
- CESTOIDS 11 pts
- DEPOSITS 11 pts
- DICTATES 11 pts
- DICTIEST 11 pts
- DIOPTASE 11 pts
- HASTIEST 11 pts
- PODESTAS 11 pts
- POSTDATE 11 pts
- SADISTIC 11 pts
- STAITHES 11 pts
- STITHIES 11 pts
- TOPSIDES 11 pts
- EPITASIS 10 pts
- OSTEITIC 10 pts
- PASTIEST 10 pts
- PASTITSO 10 pts
- PIETISTS 10 pts
- SCOTTIES 10 pts
- SOAPIEST 10 pts
- STATICES 10 pts
- STIPITES 10 pts
- TIPSIEST 10 pts
- DISTASTE 9 pts
- DITSIEST 9 pts
- OTITIDES 9 pts
- STAIDEST 9 pts
- OSTEITIS 8 pts
- OTITISES 8 pts
7-letter words
62 words- APHETIC 14 pts
- APHOTIC 14 pts
- CHEAPOS 14 pts
- CHIPSET 14 pts
- APHIDES 13 pts
- CATHODE 13 pts
- CHASSED 13 pts
- CHATTED 13 pts
- COHEADS 13 pts
- DASHPOT 13 pts
- DIPHASE 13 pts
- DIPSHIT 13 pts
- DISTICH 13 pts
- DITCHES 13 pts
- ACHIEST 12 pts
- ACHIOTE 12 pts
- AITCHES 12 pts
- APHESIS 12 pts
- CAPSIDS 12 pts
- CATTISH 12 pts
- CHAISES 12 pts
- CHAOSES 12 pts
- COAPTED 12 pts
- DEPICTS 12 pts
- DISCEPT 12 pts
- ASEPTIC 11 pts
- ASPECTS 11 pts
- CAPOTES 11 pts
- CESSPIT 11 pts
- ADIPOSE 10 pts
- APSIDES 10 pts
- ASHIEST 10 pts
- ATHEIST 10 pts
- CESTOID 10 pts
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- COADIES 10 pts
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- DACITES 10 pts
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- DEISTIC 10 pts
- DEPOSIT 10 pts
- DESPOTS 10 pts
- DICASTS 10 pts
- DICIEST 10 pts
- DICTATE 10 pts
- DISCASE 10 pts
- DISCOES 10 pts
- DISPOSE 10 pts
- DISSECT 10 pts
- DOPIEST 10 pts
- ASCITES 9 pts
- ATOPIES 9 pts
- CATTIES 9 pts
- COSIEST 9 pts
- COSTATE 9 pts
- ADIOSES 8 pts
- DAISIES 8 pts
- DISSEAT 8 pts
- DITTIES 8 pts
- DOTIEST 8 pts
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