sophisticated

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adj 5

Collocations

(adj.) having a lot of experience of the world

VERBS

be, feel, look, seem | become, get

ADV

highly, very

The restaurant's menu featured very sophisticated dishes that took years of training to prepare.

quite, rather | enough, sufficiently | intellectually, politically

(adj.) advanced and complicated

VERBS

be, look, seem | become, get

ADV

extremely, highly, very

The new smartphone has a highly sophisticated camera system that takes amazing photos in low light.

increasingly | fairly, pretty, quite, rather, relatively | enough, sufficiently | technically, technologically

Definitions

adj

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.

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Synonyms

adjective — ahead in development

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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

Wiktionary

The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.

Wiktionary

The engineer demonstrated how to operate the sophisticated system.

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The readers of that book think themselves sophisticated.

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I felt utterly out of place among those sophisticated people.

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Modern finance is becoming increasingly complicated and sophisticated.

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