Sophisticate

Quick meaning: Sophisticate is a verb meaning To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.

Meaning

To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.

More Meanings

1. To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
2. To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
3. To apply an artificial technique to (something).
4. (intransitive) To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).
5. Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).
6. To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
7. 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.).

Example Sentences

How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture; Sophisticatid craftely is many a confecture; […]

This is my friend, Abel, an honeſt fellow, He let me haue good Tobacco, and he do's not Sophiſticate it, with Sack-lees, or Oyle, […]

It is the manner of the world, and so it is of the "prince of the world," to sophisticate ever the best things with hypocrisy, with superstition, with a thousand devices more.

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.

Word Forms

• sophisticates
• sophisticating
• sophisticated

Synonyms for sophisticate

Depending on context, synonyms include denaturalize, denature, complicate, enhance, hone, improve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include convolute, pervert, adulterate, twist, doctor, outintellectual.

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