Authentic vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between authentic and sophisticate

is that authentic is of the same origin as claimed; genuine while sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

As a noun sophisticate is

a worldly-wise person.

As a verb sophisticate is

to make less natural or innocent.

authentic

English

Alternative forms

* authentical, authentick, authenticke, authentique (all archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.

The experts confirmed it was an authentic signature.

Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.

The report was completely authentic .

an authentic''' writer; an '''authentic''' portrait; '''authentic information

(music, of a Gregorian mode) Having the final as the lowest note of the mode.

(obsolete) authoritative

(Milton)

Synonyms

* (of the claimed origin) genuine, real, bonafide, bona fide, unfaked * (conforming to fact) reliable, trustworthy, credible, unfaked

Antonyms

* (not of the claimed origin) phony, fake; ingenuine

Derived terms

* authentically * authenticate * authentication * authenticity * authenticism * authenticist

sophisticate

English

Noun

(en noun)

A worldly-wise person

* '' , episode ''Sailor Mouth

Patrick: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.

SpongeBob: Yea verily!

Verb

(sophisticat)

To make less natural or innocent.

* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 38:

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 practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.

To sophisticate the understanding. — Southey.

Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate , not to refine. — M. Arnold.

To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.

To sophisticate wine. — Howell.

They purchase but sophisticated ware. — Dryden.

To make more complex or refined.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

* Dryden

So truth, while only one supplied the state, / Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate .