Complex vs. Sophisticated

Consisting of interconnected or interwoven parts; composite

Having or showing much worldly knowledge or cultural refinement

Composed of two or more units

Very complex or complicated

Difficult to understand for being intricate or involved; complicated

Suitable for or appealing to the tastes of sophisticates

Consisting of at least one bound form. Used of a word.

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

Consisting of an independent clause and at least one other independent or dependent clause. Used of a sentence.

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

A whole composed of interconnected or interwoven parts

Complicated, especially of complex technology.

A building or group of buildings used for a single purpose

(obsolete)

In psychoanalysis, a group of related, often repressed ideas and impulses that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feelings, and behavior.

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

An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear

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

(Medicine) The combination of factors, symptoms, or signs of a disease or disorder that forms a syndrome.

Simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.

Having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir faire;

Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.

Ahead in development; complex or intricate;

Having the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is (by definition) the imaginary square root of −1.

Marked by wide-ranging knowledge and appreciation of many parts of the world arising from urban life and wide travel;

Whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.

Intellectually appealing;

Whose coefficients are complex numbers; defined over the field of complex numbers.

(geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.

A problem. en

A network of interconnected systems.

A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.

An assemblage of related things; a collection.

An organized cluster of thunderstorms.

A cluster of wildfires burning in the same vicinity.

(taxonomy) A group of closely related species, often distinguished only with difficulty by traditional morphological methods.

(psychoanalysis) An abnormal mental condition caused by repressed emotions.

A vehement, often excessive psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.

(chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms or molecules, as for example coordination complexes in inorganic chemistry and protein complexes in biochemistry.

(math) A complex number.

(linguistics) A multimorphemic word, one with several parts, one with affixes.

To form a complex with another substance

(transitive) To complicate.

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate.

Assemblage of related things; collection; complication.

A conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts;

A compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated

(psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior

A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

Complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts;