[suh-fis-ti-key-shuh
n] 
| 1. | sophisticated character, ideas, tastes, or ways as the result of education, worldly experience, etc.: the sophistication of the wealthy. |
| 2. | change from the natural character or simplicity, or the resulting condition. |
| 3. | complexity, as in design or organization. |
| 4. | impairment or debasement, as of purity or genuineness. |
| 5. | the use of sophistry; a sophism, quibble, or fallacious argument. |
| so·phis·ti·cate (sə-fĭs'tĭ-kāt') v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v. tr.
To use sophistry. n. (-kĭt) A sophisticated person. [Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticāre, sophisticāt-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophistēs, sophist; see sophist.] so·phis'ti·ca'tion n., so·phis'ti·ca'tor n. |