Adulterate vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?
adulterate | sophisticate | Synonyms |
Tending to commit adultery.
* , I.v.
Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
To corrupt.
To spoil by adding impurities.
* Spectator
To commit adultery.
To defile by adultery.
A worldly-wise person
* '' , episode ''Sailor Mouth
To make less natural or innocent.
* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 38:
To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
To make more complex or refined.
Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
* Dryden
Adulterate is a synonym of sophisticate.
As adjectives the difference between adulterate and sophisticate
is that adulterate is tending to commit adultery while sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine.As verbs the difference between adulterate and sophisticate
is that adulterate is to corrupt while sophisticate is to make less natural or innocent.As a noun sophisticate is
a worldly-wise person.adulterate
English
(wikipedia adulterate)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts-
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
Verb
(adulterat)- to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coins, etc.
- The present war has adulterated our tongue with strange words.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* debaseDerived terms
* adulterant * adulterationReferences
* ----sophisticate
English
Noun
(en noun)- Patrick: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.
- SpongeBob: Yea verily!
Verb
(sophisticat)- Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain'' the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [''sc. between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].
- To sophisticate the understanding. — Southey.
- Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate , not to refine. — M. Arnold.
- To sophisticate wine. — Howell.
- They purchase but sophisticated ware. — Dryden.
Adjective
(en adjective)- So truth, while only one supplied the state, / Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate .
