Sekirov Dictionary

sophisticate

/səˈfɪstɪkeɪt/

verb 7
adjective 5
noun 1
forms 5

verb7

To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
[with oneself] To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
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To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
- She was no scion of the English houses of Brown, Jones, or Robinson, born and bred in a London back slum, and christened plain Sarah or Mary, to be sophisticated later into Celestine or Mariette. — 1879
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To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).
- How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture; Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture; […] — 1523
To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
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To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).
- The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this instance, to sophisticate. — 1791
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(no longer used) To apply an artificial technique to (something).
- [T]hey sit in some sun-shining place in a chamber or some other secret roome, where hauing a looking-glasse before them they sophisticate and dye their haire with the foresaid drugs, […] — 1611

adjective5

Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
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(no longer used) Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
- So truth, while only one supply'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate. — 1663
(no longer used) Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.

noun1

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A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.
- Patrick Star: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing. SpongeBob SquarePants: Yea verily! — 2001

forms

sophisticated · sophisticating · sophisticates · more sophisticate · most sophisticate

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