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verbalter and make impure, as with the intention to deceivetype of:
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verbpractice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
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nouna worldly-wise person
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"Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"verbmake less natural or innocent
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"a sophisticated design"verbmake more complex or refinedtype of:
Definition that contains sophisticate
- camp providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities
- france French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924)
- coward English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)
- worldly very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world
- hillbilly a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
- rustic an unsophisticated country person
- cosmopolitan a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
- suave having a sophisticated charm
- sophistication the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- debonair having a sophisticated charm