Sophisticate vs Sophistical - What's the difference?
sophisticate | sophistical |
A worldly-wise person
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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
Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.
* Thomas Babington Macaulay
As adjectives the difference between sophisticate and sophistical
is that sophisticate is adulterated; not pure; not genuine while sophistical is pertaining to a sophist or sophistry.As a noun sophisticate
is a worldly-wise person.As a verb sophisticate
is to make less natural or innocent.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 .
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 .
