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Luxury vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?

luxury | sophisticate |

As nouns the difference between luxury and sophisticate

is that luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings while sophisticate is a worldly-wise person.

As adjectives the difference between luxury and sophisticate

is that luxury is very expensive while sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

As a verb sophisticate is

to make less natural or innocent.

luxury

English

(wikipedia luxury)

Noun

(luxuries)
  • Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
  • Something desirable but expensive.
  • *
  • *:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
  • Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
  • Antonyms

    * (dispensable thing) necessity

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very expensive
  • not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
  • 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 .