sophisticate
pronunciation
How to pronounce sophisticate in British English:
UK [səˈfɪstɪkeɪt]
How to pronounce sophisticate in American English:
US [sə'fɪstɪkeɪt]
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- Noun:
- a worldly-wise person
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- Verb:
- make less natural or innocent
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
- make more complex or refined
Word Origin
- sophisticate
- sophisticate: [14] As those who hanker for the ancestral meanings of words never tire of pointing out, sophisticated originally meant ‘adulterated, corrupted’. The modern approbatory sense ‘worldly-wise, cultured’ did not emerge (via an intermediate ‘lacking primitive or original naturalness or naivety’) until the end of the 19th century; and ‘refined and elaborate’ (as in ‘a sophisticated missile system’) is more recent still, not being recorded until after World War II.The verb was adapted from the past participle of medieval Latin sophisticāre. This was derived from Latin sophisticus, a borrowing from Greek sophistikós, which in turn was derived from sophistés, a noun which meant literally ‘expert, deviser’, but was also used for a school of 5thcentury BC Greek philosophers (the Sophists) who came to be despised for their specious and intellectually dishonest reasoning (hence English sophistry [14]). Sophistés itself came via sophízesthai ‘play subtle tricks’ from sophós ‘skilled, clever, wise’, a word of unknown origin. Sophomore ‘second-year student’ [17] is an alteration of an earlier sophumer ‘arguer’, a derivative of sophum, which is a now defunct variant of sophism.=> sophistry, sophomore
- sophisticate (v.)
- c. 1400, "make impure by admixture," from Medieval Latin sophisticatus, past participle of sophisticare (see sophistication). From c. 1600 as "corrupt, delude by sophistry;" from 1796 as "deprive of simplicity." Related: Sophisticated; sophisticating. As a noun meaning "sophisticated person" from 1921.
Example
- 1. Camus was no parisian sophisticate .
- 2. Solve sophisticate mechanical problems , summarize the findings , put forward the improvement suggestions and share them with subordinates .
- 3. It is in the software life cycle a count for much and very work that sophisticate , to the meaning that software the dependable guarantee to have very importance .
- 4. Not sophisticate enough to understand the business , especially from an international perspective .
- 5. Solve sophisticate mechanical problems by communicating with headquarters , summarize the findings , put forward the improvement suggestions and share them with subordinates .