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sophisticated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
expensive/sophisticated
▪ He was a man of expensive tastes (= he liked expensive things.)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ However, Q&A is by no means as sophisticated as either WordPerfect or WordStar.
▪ Beneath that wild, impulsive exterior lurked as sophisticated a character as she was ever likely to encounter.
▪ Why on earth should cats have any reactions at all to something as sophisticated as human music?
▪ The problems they encounter in creating and interpreting them are as sophisticated and as complex as they come.
▪ Fortunately technology has come to the rescue - the new Finesse styling aids range is as sophisticated and versatile as you are.
▪ They're not as sophisticated as us.
fairly
▪ This is a fairly sophisticated performance, but it does not require a map.
▪ Scatter counting is a fairly sophisticated skill for young children, and they will need lots of help and practice.
▪ However, it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published.
▪ For instance, the method they used to prove the irrationality of was almost certainly a fairly sophisticated reductio ad absurdum.
▪ The exposure value computed for the measurements is the result of fairly sophisticated calculations.
▪ Such schemes are only suitable for fairly sophisticated investors.
highly
▪ A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal.
▪ Some of these are highly sophisticated and provide almost complete control of the duty cycle over a 100 percent variation.
▪ They are highly sophisticated, crammed with electronics, and often carry their own helicopter.
▪ However, the emplacement vessel or platform would need to be highly sophisticated - perhaps a larger version of the Glomar Explorer.
▪ For more exotic dinner parties this one, or at least for those of a highly sophisticated and refined palette!
▪ Between them, those cells produce a highly sophisticated and intricate attack upon the source of infection.
▪ They're highly sophisticated infra-red beams, virtually undetectable to the naked eye.
▪ Dealers have been showered with complaints about this highly sophisticated piece of equipment which has apparently developed a serious fault.
increasingly
▪ They are increasingly sophisticated machines, often using high quality aluminium and titanium alloys, spin offs from the aerospace industry.
▪ The F-111s are ageing and their credibility as a deterrent depends upon their ability to penetrate increasingly sophisticated Soviet air defences.
▪ The analytical techniques available to the bureaucracies of modern states are increasingly sophisticated.
▪ But domestic capital investment grew markedly and the banking and credit system became increasingly sophisticated.
▪ In the corporate and financial environment, numerically presented financial and survey data was subjected to increasingly sophisticated statistical and econometric analysis.
▪ Car security systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated.
▪ Their increasingly sophisticated tastes have been met in what has become the world's most popular man-made destination.
less
▪ At the same time, though less abrasive, the book is only intermittently less sophisticated than those that preceded it.
▪ Their financial constraints are more severe and the credit facilities at their disposal are less diverse and less sophisticated.
more
▪ It is a considerably more sophisticated approach though, as should become clear, not without its flaws.
▪ This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account.
▪ Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs.
▪ He also stressed the need for faster and more sophisticated vessels to combat modern smuggling by sea.
▪ The real power of computerised data lies in a deeper, more sophisticated analysis of the information which already exists.
▪ Topics can be revisited, when pupils are capable of greater understanding and a more sophisticated approach.
▪ Equipment is more sophisticated, and more experience is required.
▪ Even a later and more sophisticated age continued to enjoy them.
most
▪ But on few matters, it must be added, is even the most sophisticated economic and social comment more reticent.
▪ But the shell-less ones survived and they became the most sophisticated and intelligent of all the molluscs, the squids and octopus.
▪ The most sophisticated farmers are the leaf-cutting ants, which cultivate fungus on fresh vegetation thanks to an assembly-line of specialised castes.
▪ The Wurzel is the most sophisticated and its inventor has studied heron behaviour and come up with a radical audible warn-off.
▪ They required the most sophisticated communications technology so that they could transmit their stories and pictures back to their own countries.
▪ Whitehead Mann's dynamic and determined style and no-nonsense approach have appealed to the most sophisticated users of search.
▪ McClellan's is the most sophisticated approach yet designed towards solving these logistic problems.
▪ With 36 dealing stations, it will be the largest and most sophisticated north of the border.
quite
▪ This role is only just being appreciated by even quite sophisticated organizations.
▪ The concepts therefore were for that age quite sophisticated, indeed quite sophisticated by many adults' standards as we have seen.
relatively
▪ To obtain anything like pure silver from a natural gold alloy involved a relatively sophisticated process of separation.
▪ Indeed, the large number of relatively sophisticated geometric arrangements, is notable.
▪ They were more influenced than their predecessors by consciously held and relatively sophisticated beliefs and less by unthinking traditional assumptions.
▪ A second possibility is that the child is able to employ a set of relatively sophisticated strategies for analysing adult speech.
▪ Included are appendices containing a certain amount of relatively sophisticated economic analysis - diagrams and algebra.
so
▪ Fortunately the technology of the food processing industry is now so sophisticated that infection from this source has been virtually eliminated.
▪ Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility.
▪ Newspaper technology is so sophisticated we can even make politicians say things they don't know they're saying.
▪ Fortunately, the control mechanisms and procedures for flow processes are usually so sophisticated that the processes become automatically self-regulating.
too
▪ He thought she was too sophisticated not to know what she had there, but he was surprised all the same.
▪ It never would, she was too sophisticated for him, and he was too clever for her.
▪ But Skye was too sophisticated to encourage confidences.
very
▪ Something in the loch has produced some very peculiar sonar traces on some very sophisticated equipment, and that something demands explanation.
▪ They made her feel very sophisticated.
▪ This seemed a very sophisticated city.
▪ Environment OS/2 is essentially an object orientated working environment that uses the 386 family of processors to allow very sophisticated multi-tasking.
▪ De Levantiére has had her hair cut and it makes her look very sophisticated.
▪ Much political theorising was therefore restricted to explicitly normative, though often very sophisticated, comparisons of different forms of elite rule.
▪ It should have been very sophisticated.
■ NOUN
analysis
▪ This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account.
▪ Herzberg developed a more sophisticated analysis of the significance of higher and lower order needs.
▪ The real power of computerised data lies in a deeper, more sophisticated analysis of the information which already exists.
▪ Broadsheets turned to long articles about general themes, campaign strategies and sophisticated analysis of opinion polls.
▪ Only when the plays enter stabilising textual form do they become available for the type of sophisticated analysis critics undertake.
▪ A more sophisticated analysis is presented by Kenneth Newton in his study of Birmingham.
▪ Talk about the game requires no sophisticated analysis of systems and tactics, but rather a shared passion for its simplicities.
▪ Perhaps, therefore, a more delicate and sophisticated analysis would be possible if different types of oddness were recognised?
approach
▪ It is a considerably more sophisticated approach though, as should become clear, not without its flaws.
▪ Topics can be revisited, when pupils are capable of greater understanding and a more sophisticated approach.
▪ A more sophisticated approach fits different polynomials over different but overlapping terms to maturity.
▪ During the late 1970s and early 1980s several innovative and more sophisticated approaches to smoking education in schools were developed and evaluated.
▪ McClellan's is the most sophisticated approach yet designed towards solving these logistic problems.
▪ A more sophisticated approach is to adopt a matrix structure which also examines horizontal relations.
▪ A more sophisticated approach is required.
▪ A second, more sophisticated approach, has the machine put plays in order according to the results of earlier evaluations.
computer
▪ In fact there are so many that without the use of sophisticated computers it would be impossible to monitor them all.
▪ Because the Z88 is a sophisticated computer which is capable of holding several programs in memory concurrently, this option has complications.
▪ Darlington council has a sophisticated computer system to cope with the poll tax process.
▪ In his latest book he tells of sophisticated computers that can move tall buildings in the opposite direction to the tremors.
▪ Detectives, who believe more than one person is behind the attacks, are using a sophisticated computer system to aid their inquiry.
equipment
▪ Quite sophisticated equipment and trained manpower is required to make reliable estimates.
▪ Something in the loch has produced some very peculiar sonar traces on some very sophisticated equipment, and that something demands explanation.
▪ There is more at stake here than just bringing boxes of sophisticated equipment to remote areas.
▪ The treatment of hazardous waste is particularly expensive and needs especially sophisticated equipment.
▪ This method is more suitable for large farms with sophisticated equipment.
▪ Dissolves can also be edited in but require the use of rather more sophisticated equipment than for simple fades.
▪ And where they are legal, the operations require sophisticated equipment and highly-trained personnel to carry out the switch within 24 hours.
▪ When more sophisticated equipment is called for they have often adapted things to suit their own particular needs.
form
▪ Some philosophers might suspect that I have not considered the behaviouristic theories in their most sophisticated form.
▪ Motor abilities, perceptual skills and increasingly sophisticated forms of cognitive representation are all implicated in the mastery of spoken language.
▪ This type of statistical work is about inferring things from the data and is really a sophisticated form of guesswork.
method
▪ Surely it would be better if time healed injuries, not sophisticated methods?
▪ Access needed a technologically sophisticated method of intervention.
▪ This technique, which requires extremely sophisticated methods of analysis, will always remain the province of the specialist.
▪ Or perhaps more sophisticated methods are applied along the lines suggested by Friedman's permanent income hypothesis.
▪ This, as any sophisticated method, demands some practice to perfect.
▪ Research which has attempted to untangle these issues has not, by and large, employed sufficiently sophisticated methods to clarify the picture.
▪ Next, the system contained a very sophisticated method of taxation and income redistribution.
▪ The most sophisticated method of tying up land in strict settlement developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
system
▪ The allocation was achieved by a sophisticated system of groups or units comprising one or more cities.
▪ In a more sophisticated system, a subscriber can control the pulses from the videodisc player via a keyboard in his home.
technique
▪ With brute force techniques ... they do achieve about the same end result as we do with much more sophisticated techniques.
▪ Criticism by many research workers has led to the development of ancillary measures, involving more sophisticated techniques.
▪ Useful results can often be achieved through simple analysis without resorting to the more sophisticated techniques.
▪ They have been extensively researched and a wide range of sophisticated techniques have been used.
▪ From 1938 television pulsed circuit and other sophisticated techniques were of increasing interest for the development of essential defence innovations.
▪ Increasingly sophisticated techniques have been used to solve these problems.
▪ But we do not need these sophisticated techniques to improve group effectiveness.
technology
▪ In order to encourage this change as quickly as possible, foreign experts, accompanied by sophisticated technology, were introduced.
version
▪ And yet she subtly steered her boss towards a more sophisticated version of this.
▪ A more sophisticated version of this type is the Tabriz loom, used primarily by workshop groups.
▪ In this respect, his pluralism can be regarded as a more sophisticated version of monism.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sophisticated woman whose friends included many rich and famous people
▪ a play that will appeal to a sophisticated audience
▪ Even experienced and sophisticated readers have been known to have trouble with Thoreau's books.
▪ Everyone at the party was sophisticated and well-educated.
▪ Eye operations often involve the use of highly sophisticated equipment, such as lasers.
▪ Nothing beats black for the classic sophisticated look.
▪ She was glamorous and sophisticated, but seemed a little lonely.
▪ Sondheim's lyrics have a sophisticated brilliance.
▪ The missile has a sophisticated guidance system.
▪ The play is intended for a sophisticated audience.
▪ The suave, sophisticated 60-year-old singer is still performing and drawing crowds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And yet she subtly steered her boss towards a more sophisticated version of this.
▪ Anne thought often about Sarah and her sophisticated partner on the Saturday night of the dinner dance.
▪ As a fourteen-year-old she had made her debut in a particularly sophisticated team, and went on to appear on Broadway.
▪ Develops the skills further, and pays special attention to more sophisticated sub-skills such as scanning a text.
▪ He proposed to develop a sophisticated fishing industry.
▪ However, it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published.
▪ Really sophisticated users may like to invest in the ultimate communications link between the two systems, a local area network.
▪ These developments in turn contributed to the rebirth of various critical and intellectually sophisticated neo-Marxisms in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sophisticated

Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sophisticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Sophisticating.] [LL. sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.] To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.
--Howell.

To sophisticate the understanding.
--Southey.

Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.
--M. Arnold.

They purchase but sophisticated ware.
--Dryden.

Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.

Sophisticated

Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated \So*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sophisticated

c.1600, "mixed with a foreign substance, impure; no longer simple or natural," past participle adjective from sophisticate (v.). Of persons, with a positive sense, "worldly-wise, discriminating, cultured," from 1895.

Wiktionary
sophisticated
  1. 1 Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan. 2 elegant, refined. 3 complicated, especially of complex technology. 4 appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral. 5 (context obsolete UK English) dishonest or misleading. v

  2. (en-past of: sophisticate)

WordNet
sophisticated
  1. adj. having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir faire; "sophisticated young socialites"; "a sophisticated audience"; "a sophisticated lifestyle"; "a sophisticated book" [ant: naive]

  2. ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system" [syn: advanced]

  3. marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel; "the sophisticated manners of a true cosmopolite"; "urbane and pliant...he was at ease even in the drawing rooms of Paris" [syn: urbane]

  4. intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"

Wikipedia
Sophisticated

Sophisticated is the fourth studio album by the progressive metal band Sieges Even. It is the first album to feature the vocalist Greg Keller and it is a complete departure musically from their previous album.

Usage examples of "sophisticated".

There are loopholes, and a technically sophisticated adolescent will be able to defeat them.

All adequate understanding of aphasia or agnosia would, he believed, require a new, more sophisticated science.

But Europe by the thirteenth century, say, boasted great cities, thriving agriculture and trade, sophisticated government and legal systems.

He had converted the innocent rural bawdry of the masque into a sophisticated vileness.

I would surmise the presence of a class-B jamming field of an unknown and extremely sophisticated design, probably controlled by a biaxial shield generator as Mr.

He was caged between surgeries, fed raw meat and vitamin injections, anesthetized and programmed in ways that are sophisticated even for today: biofeedback, subliminal conditioning.

That forms new and generally more sophisticated offspring programs that are then evaluated for mating on the basis of their fitness, et cetera, et cetera.

It always amazed Remo how Chiun managed to grasp sophisticated Western concepts when it suited his purpose, like coequal partner.

With her hair given a sophisticated wave and combed back neatly she was radiating raw sex appeal.

It is fortunate for her, and for De Coude as well, that it was you and not another man more sophisticated.

But the technique of its solution lies at the heart of the cryptanalysis of nearly all more sophisticated substitution ciphers.

The food was hot and plentiful, and although not culinarily sophisticated, very good.

The room itself, elegantly coved and dadoed, was a sophisticated mix of purples and contrasting shades, mainly ochres and whites, against which the King made a different kind of contrast, dressed today not in his Roman wear but local garments in a whole fruit basket of berry dyes.

It ran its own courts under the presidency of an ethnarch, and its sophisticated members rose to high positions within the country.

By expansion, for one thing, including a land purchase that gave the Feen its own tubetrain station, complete with some rather sophisticated security gates and a short siding track to accommodate its newly purchased cargo cars.