Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan. / Elegant, refined. / Complicated, especially of complex technology. / Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.

simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

Pertaining to the ancient sophists. / Sophistical.

(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.

In a sophistical fashion.

present participle of sophisticate

One who sophisticates.

plural of sophisticator

One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece. / (figuratively) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.

Alternative letter-case form of sophistic