 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sophisticate
noun: a worldly-wise person [syn: {man of the world}]
verb
1: make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had
sophisticated the young girls"
2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about
in order to mislead or deceive [syn: {twist}, {twist
around}, {pervert}, {convolute}]
3: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;
"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: {doctor}, {doctor
up}]
4: make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, verb (used with an object) [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 sophisticate wine. --Howell.
To sophisticate the understanding. --Southey.
Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to
sophisticate, not to refine. --M. Arnold.
They purchase but sophisticated ware. --Dryden.
Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated
\So*phis"ti*ca'ted\, adjective
Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
So truth, while only one supplied the state,
Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. --Dryden.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "sophisticate":
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
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