Sophistical vs Sophisticated - What's the difference?
sophistical | sophisticated |
Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.
* Thomas Babington Macaulay
Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking ; cosmopolitan.
Elegant, refined.
Complicated, especially of complex technology.
Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
(obsolete, UK) Dishonest or misleading.
(sophisticate)
As adjectives the difference between sophistical and sophisticated
is that sophistical is pertaining to a sophist or sophistry while sophisticated is having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.As a verb sophisticated is
past tense of sophisticate.sophistical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This is, we believe, a fair summary of Mr. Lamb's doctrine. We are sure that we do not wish to represent him unfairly. But we must plainly say that his argument, though ingenious, is altogether sophistical .
