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Adjective sophisticated has 4 senses
  1. sophisticated - having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book"
    Antonyms:     naive, naif, childlike, wide-eyed, dewy-eyed, simple, credulous, fleeceable, green, gullible, ignorant, inexperienced, innocent, ingenuous, simple-minded, unsophisticated, unworldly
  2. advanced, sophisticated - ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
    Antonym: low-tech (indirect, via high-tech)
  3. sophisticated, urbane - marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris"
    Antonym: provincial (indirect, via cosmopolitan)
  4. sophisticated - intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
    Antonym:     nonintellectual (indirect, via intellectual)
,Verb sophisticate has 4 senses
  1. sophisticate - make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
    --1 is one way to     educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise
    Derived forms: noun sophisticate1, noun sophistication4
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
  2. twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate - practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
    --2 is one way to denote, refer
    Derived forms: noun sophistication2, noun sophistication5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. sophisticate, doctor, doctor up - alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
    --3 is one way to adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. sophisticate - make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
    --4 is one way to     complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
    Derived form: noun sophistication3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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