word | sophisticated |
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definition | (1) Having a thorough knowledge of the ways of society. (2) Highly complex or developed. |
eg_sentence | In Woman of the Year, Katharine Hepburn plays a sophisticated journalist who can handle everything except Spencer Tracy. |
explanation | A sophisticated argument is thorough and well-worked-out. A satellite is a sophisticated piece of technology, complex and designed to accomplish difficult tasks. A sophisticated person, such as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, knows how to get around in the world. But sophistication isn't always admired. As you might guess, the word is closely related to sophistry (see above), and its original meanings weren't very positive, and still today many of us aren't sure we really like sophisticates |
IPA | səˈfɪstɪˌkeɪtəd |
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