Corrupt vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?

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Corrupt is a related term of sophisticate.

As adjectives the difference between corrupt and sophisticate

is that corrupt is in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals while sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

As verbs the difference between corrupt and sophisticate

is that corrupt is to make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert while sophisticate is to make less natural or innocent.

As a noun sophisticate is

a worldly-wise person.

corrupt

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.

The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.

* Shakespeare

At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.

Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.

The text of the manuscript is corrupt .

It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.

In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

* Knolles

Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.

Usage notes

* Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.

Quotations

* , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Synonyms

* corrupted

Verb

(en verb)

To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.

Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!

* , Genesis 6:12

And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.

(Francis Bacon)

To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.

to corrupt language, or a holy text

To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

* Bible, Matthew vi. 19

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .

References

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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 .