Meaning

5 senses
  1. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

    erfahren, weltgewandt, kultiviert

    искушённыйiskušónnyj, умудрённыйumudrjónnyj, о́пытныйópytnyj

  2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.

    kultiviert, raffiniert, raffiniert

    утончённыйutončónnyj, изощрённыйizoščrjónnyj

  3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.

    hochentwickelt, raffiniert, ausgeklügelt

    сло́жныйslóžnyj, мудрёныйmudrjónyj, замыслова́тыйzamyslovátyj

    ahead in development; complex or intricate

  4. (obsolete)Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.

  5. (obsolete)Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
having obtained worldly experience:
appealing to the tastes of an intellectual:
complicated, especially of technology:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
having obtained worldly experience:
elegant, refined:
complicated, especially of technology:

Origin

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

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