Synonymer

Uttal

  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: [səˈfɪstɪkət]
    • IPA: [səˈfɪstɪkeɪt]

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A worldly-wise person

Verb

  1. To make less natural or innocent.
  2. To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
  3. To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
  4. To make more complex or refined.

Adjektiv

  1. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

Exempel

  • Patrick: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.
  • SpongeBob: Yea verily!
  • 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].
  • Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. — M. Arnold.
  • To sophisticate the understanding. — Southey.
  • They purchase but sophisticated ware. — Dryden.
  • To sophisticate wine. — Howell.
  • So truth, while only one supplied the state, / Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipsophisticatedImperfektsophisticated
PresensparticipsophisticatingPluralsophisticates
Komparativmore sophisticateSuperlativmost sophisticate
Tredje person singular indicativ presenssophisticates

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