sophisticate
21sophisticate — verb 1》 make (someone or something) more sophisticated. 2》 archaic talk or reason in a complex and educated manner. ↘mislead or corrupt by sophistry. noun a sophisticated person. adjective archaic sophisticated. Derivatives sophistication… …
22sophisticate — I. v. a. 1. Pervert, corrupt, vitiate, damage. 2. Adulterate, debase, render spurious. II. a. Adulterated, spurious, counterfeit, debased, vitiated, perverted, corrupted, sophisticated …
23sophisticate — noun (C) someone who is sophisticated sophisticated adjective 1 having a lot of experience of life, good judgment about socially important things such as art, fashion etc: a play that will only appeal to a sophisticated audience | a suave,… …
24sophisticate — n 1. man or woman of the world, man about town, playboy, city boy, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, citizen of the world, world traveler; connoisseur, gourmet, one of impeccable taste, one who knows his way around, one who s been around. v 2.… …
25sophisticate — so·phis·ti·cate …
26sophisticate — verb (sophisticated, sophisticating) –verb (t) /səˈfɪstəkeɪt/ (say suh fistuhkayt) 1. to make less natural, simple, or ingenuous; to make worldly wise. 2. to mislead or pervert. –verb (i) /səˈfɪstəkeɪt/ (say suh fistuhkayt) 3. to use sophistry;… …
27sophisticate — [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… …
28sophisticate — v., adj., & n. v. 1 tr. make (a person etc.) educated, cultured, or refined. 2 tr. make (equipment or techniques etc.) highly developed or complex. 3 tr. a involve (a subject) in sophistry. b mislead (a person) by sophistry. 4 tr. deprive (a… …
29Downhome Sophisticate — is a blues album by Corey Harris. It was released on 7 May 2002, through Rounder Records. The track Santoro is sampled for the opening theme of The Story, an American radio show. Track listing Giddyup 0:18 Frankie Doris 2:52 Money on My Mind 3:31 …
30Sophisticated — Sophisticate 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… …
