1. A worldly-wise person
   "As a true sophisticate, he was equally at ease discussing fine wines or international politics";
   - man of the world

1. Make less natural or innocent
   "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
    
2. Make more complex or refined
   "his rewrite sophisticated the analysis"
    
3. [archaic] Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
   "The lawyer sophisticated the evidence to confuse the jury";
   - twist, twist around, pervert, convolute

Derived forms: sophisticates, sophisticating, sophisticated

Type of: actor, civilise [Brit], civilize, complicate, cultivate, denote, doer, educate, elaborate, rarefy, rarify [rare], refer, refine, school, train, worker