sophisticate

so·phis·ti·cate

 (sə-fĭs′tĭ-kāt′)

v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates

v.tr.

1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly: Travel tends to sophisticate a person.

2. To make more complex or refined: sophisticated the theory to take criticism into account.

3. Archaic

a. To mislead or corrupt (a person).

b. To make impure; adulterate.

v.intr. Archaic

To use sophistry.

n. (-kĭt)

A sophisticated person.

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[Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticāre, sophisticāt-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophistēs, sophist; see sophist.]

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so·phis′ti·ca′tion n.

so·phis′ti·ca′tor n.

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sophisticate

vb

1. (tr) to make (someone) less natural or innocent, as by education

2. to pervert or corrupt (an argument, etc) by sophistry

3. (tr) to make more complex or refined

4. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) rare to falsify (a text, etc) by alterations

n

a sophisticated person

[C14: from Medieval Latin sophisticāre, from Latin sophisticus sophistic]

soˌphistiˈcation n

soˈphistiˌcator n

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so•phis•ti•cate

(n., səˈfɪs tɪ kɪt, -ˌkeɪt; v. -ˌkeɪt)

n., v. -cat•ed, -cat•ing. n.

1. a sophisticated person.

v.t.

2. to make less natural, simple, or ingenuous; make worldly-wise.

3. to alter; pervert: to sophisticate a meaning beyond recognition.

[1350–1400; Middle English (adj. and v.) < Medieval Latin sophisticātus, past participle of sophisticāre to trick with words]

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sophisticate

Past participle: sophisticated
Gerund: sophisticating

Imperative

sophisticate

sophisticate

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sophisticate - a worldly-wise person     man of the world adult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward cosmopolitan, cosmopolite - a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries slicker - a person with good manners and stylish clothing
Verb	1.	sophisticate - make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" civilise, civilize, school, cultivate, educate, train - teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"
	2.	sophisticate - practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" twist around, convolute, pervert, twist denote, refer - have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' "
	3.	sophisticate - alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" doctor, doctor up adulterate, dilute, debase, load, stretch - corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
	4.	sophisticate - make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design" rarify, refine, complicate, elaborate - make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"

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sophisticate

verb

To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances:

adulterate, debase, doctor, load.

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Translations

cosmopolitemondain

sophisticate

[səˈfɪstɪkeɪt] N → persona f sofisticada

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sophisticate

n the sophisticates who haunt the fashionable restaurants → die Schickeria, die sich in den richtigen Restaurants zeigt

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