sophisticated
adjectifverbecourant dans les dialogues
Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
adjectif
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Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
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.
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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.
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Complicated, especially of complex technology.
The much more sophisticated and personable chatbots of today are the “Eliza effect on steroids,” [Sherry] Turkle said.
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obsolèteMixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
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obsolèteOf a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Étymologie
First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
verbe
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Aussi une forme de sophisticatesimple past and past participle of sophisticate
Formes
- comparatif
- more sophisticated
- superlatif
- most sophisticated
sophisticated · Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
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