Etymology

sophisticated

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Today it means: Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise. Full definition →

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First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.