sophisticated
adjective
- complicated
- advanced, refined,
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
- 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.
- Complicated, especially of complex technology.
“The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.”
- Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
- Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
verb
Etymology: First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
- simple past and past participle of sophisticate