Meaning of SOPHISTICATE
| Pronunciation: | | su'fistu`keyt
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- [n] a worldly-wise person
- [v] practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- [v] make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
- [v] alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
- [v] make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
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| | Synonyms: | | convolute, doctor, doctor up, man of the world, pervert, twist, twist around |
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| | See Also: | | adult, adulterate, civilise, civilize, complicate, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, cultivate, debase, denote, dilute, educate, elaborate, grownup, rarify, refer, refine, school, slicker, stretch, train | |
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\So*phis"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Sophisticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sophisticating}.] [LL.
sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.]
To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage;
to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. --Howell.
To sophisticate the understanding. --Southey.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
sophisticate, not to refine. --M. Arnold.
They purchase but sophisticated ware. --Dryden.
Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
\So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated
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