intellectual vs sophisticated

intellectual

adj
  • Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness 

  • Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind. 

  • Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect 

  • Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive. 

noun
  • An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters. 

sophisticated

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

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

  • Complicated, especially of complex technology. 

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