sophisticate

Speech parts

1. sophisticate - Noun

2. sophisticate - Adjective

3. sophisticate - Verb

Meaning

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.

Alt. of Sophisticated

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

corinthian doctor cosmopolite corrupt alloy twist cosmopolitan pervert slicker humanize urbanize adulterate debase vitiate convolute
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Antonyms

hick bumpkin guttersnipe troglodyte yokel unsophisticate

Hypernyms

school refer train adult load elaborate

Hyponyms

cosmopolite cosmopolitan slicker

Phrases with the word

fashionable sophisticate

Derivatives

sophisticated sophisticating

Examples

Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist. Ethel Merman

Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato. Wendell Berry

Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property" Charles Fort

Nothing is easier than to falsify the past. Lifeless instruction will do it. If you rob it of vitality, stiffen it with pedantry, sophisticate it with argument, chill it with unsympathetic comment, you render it as dead as any academic exercise. Woodrow Wilson

Don't twist my words Source: Internet

Sophisticate rose water with geraniol Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sophistical sophistically sophisticalness sophisticated sophisticated accent sophisticated art