4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, Sophisticated \So*phis"ti*ca`ted\, a. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine. [1913 Webster] So truth, while only one supplied the state, Grew scare and dear, and yet sophisticate. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sophisticate \So*phis"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sophisticated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sophisticating}.] [LL. sophisticatus, p. p. of sophisticare to sophisticate.] To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. --Howell. [1913 Webster] To sophisticate the understanding. --Southey. [1913 Webster] Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster] They purchase but sophisticated ware. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Syn: To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate. [1913 Webster] Sophisticate From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sophisticate n : a worldly-wise person [syn: {man of the world}] v 1: make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" 2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive [syn: {twist}, {twist around}, {pervert}, {convolute}] 3: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: {doctor}, {doctor up}] 4: make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design" From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 18 Moby Thesaurus words for "sophisticate": blase, city slicker, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, debase, disenchanted, disillusioned, doctor, knowing, load, man of experience, man-about-town, mondaine, slicker, weight, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise
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