verb
- Make less natural or innocent.
- usage: "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
- synonyms: sophisticate
- Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
- usage: "Don't twist my words"
- synonyms: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate
- Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
- usage: "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
- synonyms: sophisticate, doctor, doctor up
- Make more complex or refined.
- usage: "a sophisticated design"
- synonyms: sophisticate
adjective
- Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire.
- usage: "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
- Ahead in development; complex or intricate.
- usage: "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
- synonyms: advanced
- Intellectually appealing.
- usage: "a sophisticated drama"
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