Premium vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?
premium | sophisticate |
Superior in quality; higher in price or value.
A prize or award.
Something offered at a reduced price as an inducement to buy something else.
A bonus paid in addition to normal payments.
The amount to be paid for an insurance policy.
An unusually high value.
(finance) The amount by which a security's value exceeds its face value.
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
As nouns the difference between premium and sophisticate
is that premium is bonus (extra amount of money given as a premium) while sophisticate is a worldly-wise person.As a verb sophisticate is
to make less natural or innocent.As an adjective sophisticate is
adulterated; not pure; not genuine.premium
English
(wikipedia premium)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* (term) is much less common than (premiums), accounting for less than 1% of total usage in US (COCA) and 4% in UK (BNC).Antonyms
* (finance) discountDerived terms
(Terms derived from the adjective or noun "premium") * at a premium * buyer's premium * premium bond * premium outletsophisticate
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 .