elaborate vs sophisticated

elaborate

adj
  • Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. 

  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy. 

verb
  • to develop in detail or complexity 

  • (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail 

sophisticated

adj
  • Complicated, especially of complex technology. 

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

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

How often have the words elaborate and sophisticated occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )