Exquisite vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between exquisite and sophisticate

is that exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional while sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

As nouns the difference between exquisite and sophisticate

is that exquisite is (rare) fop, dandy while sophisticate is a worldly-wise person.

As a verb sophisticate is

to make less natural or innocent.

exquisite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.

*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.

(lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.

; far-fetched; abstruse.

Of special beauty or rare excellence.

Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.

Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.

*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)

*:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

Synonyms

* beautiful, delicate, discriminating

Noun

(en noun)

(rare) Fop, dandy.

* 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.

So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.

*:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .

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 .