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User_gary Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

sophisticated tastes

I don't suppose I have any books that would suit your sophisticated tastes.
He was older than me and from London and I thought him very sophisticated.

Could you explain the meaning of "sophisticated" in these sentences?

Of course, I looked up the word in the dictionary, but I couldn't quite understand it.

  

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Someone who is sophisticated is experienced in the ways of the world and has highly developed tastes in the matter of culture. In the UK, people who are sophisticated are the sort of people who go to the opera and the theatre, listen to classical music, read literary books, and have a strong aesthetic sense of how they dress and behave. In India, they are probably not likely to go to the popular Bollywood films.

  • Someone who is sophisticated is experienced in the ways of the world and has highly developed tastes in the matter of culture.
  • In the UK, people who are sophisticated are the sort of people who go to the opera and the theatre, listen to classical music, read literary books, and have a strong aesthetic sense of how they dress and behave.
  • In India, they are probably not likely to go to the popular Bollywood films.
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Someone who is sophisticated is experienced in the ways of the world and has highly developed tastes in the matter of culture.

In the UK, people who are sophisticated are the sort of people who go to the opera and the theatre, listen to classical music, read literary books, and have a strong aesthetic sense of how they dress and behave.

In India, they are probably not likely to

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