16 November 2014
sophisticated
[suh-fis-ti-key-tid]
adjective
1. (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive:
a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of a journalist.
2. pleasing or satisfactory to the tastes of sophisticates :
sophisticated music.
3. deceptive; misleading.
4. complex or intricate, as a system, process, piece of machinery, or the like:
a sophisticated electronic control system.
5. of, for, or reflecting educated taste, knowledgeable use, etc.:
Many Americans are drinking more sophisticated wines now.
Also, sophisticate.
Origin
Medieval Latin
1595-1605; < Medieval Latin sophisticāt (us) sophisticate + -ed2
Related forms
sophisticatedly, adverb
hypersophisticated, adjective
hypersophisticatedly, adverb
oversophisticated, adjective
supersophisticated, adjective
Synonyms
1. worldly, cosmopolitan, experienced, cultivated.
Antonyms Expand
1. naive.
sophisticate
[n., adj. suh-fis-ti-kit, -keyt; v. suh-fis-ti-keyt]
noun
1. a sophisticated person.
adjective
2. sophisticated.
verb (used with object), sophisticated, sophisticating.
3. to make less natural, simple, or ingenuous; make worldly-wise.
4. to alter; pervert:
to sophisticate a meaning beyond recognition.
verb (used without object), sophisticated, sophisticating.
5. to use sophistry; quibble.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English (adj. and v.) < Medieval Latin sophisticātus (past participle of sophisticāre to tamper with, disguise, trick with words), equivalent to Latin sophistic (us) (see sophistic ) + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
outsophisticate, verb (used with object), outsophisticated, outsophisticating.
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Examples from the web for sophisticated
– He expected odious solitary scavengers but instead found sophisticated hunters living in complex clans.
– Psychology often takes simple behavioral data and tries to make it more complicated and sophisticated.
– They’re growing ever more complex, subtle, and sophisticated.
Anagram (sophisticated)
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Today’s aphorism
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
– Rumi
On this day
16 November 1793 – During the French Revolution, 90 Catholic priests who were opposed to the Republic, are executed by drowning at Nantes.
16 November 1938 – Swiss scientist, Dr Albert Hofmann, creates the synthetic drug, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
16 November 1945 – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is founded in order ‘to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice and the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion’.
16 November 1988 – 35 year old, Benazir Bhutto elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was a member of the democratic-socialist Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).