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Contemporary vs Sophisticate - What's the difference?

contemporary | sophisticate |

As adjectives the difference between contemporary and sophisticate

is that contemporary is from the same time period, coexistent in time while sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

As nouns the difference between contemporary and sophisticate

is that contemporary is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another while sophisticate is a worldly-wise person.

As a verb sophisticate is

to make less natural or innocent.

contemporary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • From the same time period, coexistent in time.
  • * Cowley
    • A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
  • * Strype
    • This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
  • Modern, of the present age.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Men In Black 3 finagles its way out of this predicament by literally resetting the clock with a time-travel premise that makes Will Smith both a contemporary intergalactic cop in the late 1960s and a stranger to Josh Brolin, who plays the younger version of Smith’s stone-faced future partner, Tommy Lee Jones.}}
  • Relatively recent

    • Synonyms

    * contemporaneous

    Antonyms

    * anachronistic: in the wrong time period * archaic

    Noun

    (contemporaries)
  • Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
    • ''Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
    ''The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .
  • Something existing at the same time.

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    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 .