Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”)

Alternative letter-case form of sophistic

plural of sophistication

One who sophisticates.

plural of sophisticator

Enlightenment or education. / Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. / Deceptive logic; sophistry. / Falsification or contamination. / Complexity. / Ability to deal with complexity.

Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan. / Elegant, refined. / Complicated, especially of complex technology. / Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.

simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

A worldly-wise person.

(transitive) To make less natural or innocent. / To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.