sophisticated adjective5 •Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise. •(of a machine or a system) having many parts that work together, so that it can do difficult thingsThe much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said. — 2025 •Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined. •(no longer used) Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure. •(no longer used) Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way. formsmore sophisticated · most sophisticated