sophisticated

CEFRB2

/səˈfɪstəˌkeɪtɪd/

adjective

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.

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The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.

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The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.
2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, quoting Sherry Turkle, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived f...
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.
1958 February 26, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88

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First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.