Sophisticated
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan. elegant, refined. Complicated, especially of complex technology. Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral. Dishonest or misleading (rare; primarily British English).
Example sentence: We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
Intellectual
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An intelligent person, someone interested in intellectual matters.The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Example sentence: I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.