| VERB | social | sophisticate | make less natural or innocent |
|---|---|---|---|
| communication | sophisticate, twist, twist around, pervert, convolute | practice sophistry | |
| change | sophisticate, doctor, doctor up | alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | |
| change | sophisticate | make more complex or refined | |
| NOUN | person | sophisticate, man of the world | a worldly-wise person |
| Sounds | sahfih'stahkaht; sahfih'stahkey.t | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abbot ... zealot / Zealot: 372 rhymes with aht... | |
| abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | ||
| Meaning | A worldly-wise person. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | man of the world | |
| Narrower | cosmopolitan, cosmopolite | A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries |
| slicker | A person with good manners and stylish clothing | |
| Broader | adult, grownup | A fully developed person from maturity onward |
| Spanish | hombre del mundo, hombre de mundo | |
| Catalan | home de món | |
| Verbs | sophisticate | make less natural or innocent |
| Meaning | make less natural or innocent. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" | |
| Broader | educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise | Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment |
| Spanish | sofisticar | |
| Catalan | sofisticar | |
| Nouns | sophisticate | a worldly-wise person |
| sophistication | the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | |
| Meaning | Practice sophistry; change the meaning / meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive / deceive. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | twist, twist around, pervert, convolute | |
| Broader | denote, refer | Have as a meaning / meaning |
| Spanish | tergiversar | |
| Nouns | sophistication | falsification by the use of sophistry |
| sophistication | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity / ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | |
| Meaning | Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" | |
| Synonyms | doctor, doctor up | |
| Broader | load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase | Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance |
| Meaning | make more complex or refined. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "a sophisticated design" | |
| Broader | complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate | make more complex, intricate, or richer |
| Spanish | sofisticar | |
| Catalan | sofisticar | |
| Nouns | sophistication | being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject |
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