Sophisticated vs. Classy — What's the Difference?

Having or showing much worldly knowledge or cultural refinement

Highly stylish; elegant.

Very complex or complicated

Elegant, highly stylish or fashionable.

Suitable for or appealing to the tastes of sophisticates

Of a superior type; especially, exhibiting admirable personal qualities.

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

Having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress. Opposite of styleless.

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

Exhibiting refinement and high character. Opposite of low-class

Complicated, especially of complex technology.

Elegant and fashionable;

(obsolete)

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

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

Simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

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

Ahead in development; complex or intricate;

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

Intellectually appealing;