Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sophisticated

/səfˈɪstəkˌeɪtɪd/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English

Syllables: so-phis-ti-cat-ed
IPA: /səfˈɪstəkˌeɪtɪd/

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

adj

Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.

adj

Complicated, especially of complex technology.

adj

Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.

Obsolete

adj

Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

Obsolete

verb

simple past and past participle of sophisticate

Example Sentences

"Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences."
"The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said."

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more sophisticated (comparative) most sophisticated (superlative)

Derived Forms

hypersophisticated oversophisticated sophisticatedly sophisticatedness supersophisticated ultrasophisticated unsophisticated

Phrases

pseudo-sophisticated sophisticated falsificationism sophisti-pop

Frequently Paired Words

sophisticate sophist sophistry philosophy

Synonyms

sophisticate worldly urbane polluted tainted adulterated common contaminated corrupted mixed sophisticated

Antonyms

provincial

Questions

How do you pronounce sophisticated?: The recorded pronunciation is /səfˈɪstəkˌeɪtɪd/.
What does sophisticated mean?: Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Where does sophisticated come from?: First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

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