Sophisticate vs Complicated - What's the difference?
sophisticate | complicated |
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
Difficult or convoluted.
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(Biology) Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
(complicate)
As verbs the difference between sophisticate and complicated
is that sophisticate is to make less natural or innocent while complicated is (complicate).As adjectives the difference between sophisticate and complicated
is that sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine while complicated is difficult or convoluted.As a noun sophisticate
is a worldly-wise person.sophisticate
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 .
complicated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
Antonyms
* simpleVerb
(head)- The process of fixing the car engine was complicated by the lack of tools.
