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Grammar : Adj
Spell : suh-fis-ti-key-tid
Phonetic Transcription : səˈfɪs tɪˌkeɪ tɪd

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Définition of sophisticated

Origin :
  • c.1600, "mixed with a foreign substance, impure; no longer simple or natural," past participle adjective from sophisticate (v.). Of persons, with a positive sense, "worldly-wise, discriminating, cultured," from 1895.
  • adj cosmopolitan, cultured
  • adj complex, advanced
Example sentences :
  • There speaks the sophisticated and conscious literary technician!
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • The sophisticated African has ceased to be surprised at anything a white man may do.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and understand these doings.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • "Time has nothing to do with love," said the sophisticated Sara.
  • Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
  • Crowley was right—she could not meet his sophisticated gaze.
  • Extract from : « Joan of Arc of the North Woods » by Holman Day
  • This was a new and sophisticated republication of savage animism.
  • Extract from : « The Necessity of Atheism » by Dr. D.M. Brooks
  • But in national legends this universal process is sophisticated.
  • Extract from : « Chosen Peoples » by Israel Zangwill
  • To sophisticated people, the boy might have seemed as grotesque as the cub.
  • Extract from : « The Young Mountaineers » by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • For all her sophisticated and independent manner she was still a child at heart.
  • Extract from : « The Mask » by Arthur Hornblow
  • Rather,” he replied coldly, “but very worldly and sophisticated.
  • Extract from : « Flora Lyndsay » by Susan Moodie

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