sophistizierten

sophistiziert-en First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Adjective

sophisticated (comparative more sophisticated, superlative most sophisticated)

1. Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.

   Synonyms: sophisticate, worldly

   Antonym: provincial

2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.

   Synonym: sophisticate

3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. (obsolete)

   Synonym: sophisticate

   1. Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.

      Synonyms: polluted, tainted; see also Thesaurus:contaminated

   2. Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.