1. Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire
   "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"
    
2. Ahead in development; complex or intricate
   "a sophisticated electronic control system";
   - advanced
    
3. Intellectually appealing
   "a sophisticated drama"

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

See also: blasé, clued-up [Brit, informal], cosmopolitan, disenchanted, elegant, high-tech, hi-tech, informed, intellectual, intelligent, literate, polished, refined, savvy [informal], secular, temporal, urbane, well-informed, widely distributed, worldly, worldly-wise

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

Antonym: naif

Encyclopedia: Sophisticated