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

plural of sophister

A sophist. / (dated, UK, US, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.

plural of sophist

Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry. / Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.

plural of sophisticate

In a sophistical fashion.

Pertaining to the ancient sophists. / Sophistical.

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