sophisticate
11sophisticate — so•phis•ti•cate n. [[t]səˈfɪs tɪ kɪt, ˌkeɪt[/t]] v. [[t] ˌkeɪt[/t]] n. v. cat•ed, cat•ing 1) a sophisticated person 2) to make less natural, simple, or ingenuous; make worldly wise 3) to alter; pervert: to sophisticate a meaning beyond… …
12sophisticate — I. transitive verb ( cated; cating) Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin sophisticatus, past participle of sophisticare, from Latin sophisticus sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophistēs sophist Date: 15th century 1. to alter… …
13sophisticate — 1. noun A worldly wise person 2. verb a) Make less natural or innocent b) Practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to …
14sophisticate — To adulterate. [Mod. L. sophisticare, pp. sophisticatus, to alter deceptively, fr. G. sophistikos, deceitful] * * * so·phis·ti·cate sə fis tə .kāt vt, cat·ed; cat·ing to make impure: ADULTERATE <a sophisticated oil> …
15sophisticate — Synonyms and related words: blase, city slicker, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, debase, disenchanted, disillusioned, doctor, knowing, load, man of experience, man about town, mondaine, slicker, weight, world wise, worldly, worldly wise …
16sophisticate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. worldling; cosmopolitan, man about town, man of the world. See skill, knowledge. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances: adulterate, debase …
17sophisticate — so|phis|ti|cate [səˈfıstıkeıt] n formal someone who is sophisticated …
18sophisticate — so|phis|ti|cate [ sə fıstıkət ] noun count someone who knows a lot about things such as culture, fashion, and the modern world …
19sophisticate — [14] As those who hanker for the ancestral meanings of words never tire of pointing out, sophisticated originally meant ‘adulterated, corrupted’. The modern approbatory sense ‘worldly wise, cultured’ did not emerge (via an intermediate ‘lacking… …
20sophisticate — so phis·ti·cate || sÉ™ fɪstɪkeɪt n. worldly person, person of wide learning and experience v. render worldly, make less innocent and naive; alter, pervert; make more complex adj. sophisticated, worldly wise, experienced …
