# sophisticated

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #6,623

## Definitions
1. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
5. Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

## Etymology
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

## Common misspellings (20)
`osphisticated`, `sohpisticated`, `sophhisticated`, `sophisitcated`, `sophissticated`, `sophistciated`, `sophistiacted`, `sophisticaetd`, `sophisticatde`, `sophisticatedd`, `sophisticatted`, `sophisticcated`, `sophistictaed`, `sophistticated`, `sophitsicated`, `sophsiticated`, `sopihsticated`, `sopphisticated`, `spohisticated`, `ssophisticated`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/sophisticated