| sophistic | (adj) เกี่ยวกับผู้รอบรู้ |
| sophistic | (adj) of or pertaining to sophists |
| sophistic | (adj) plausible but misleading, Syn. sophistical |
| sophisticate | (n) a worldly-wise person, Syn. man of the world |
| sophisticate | (v) make less natural or innocent, Example: Their manners had sophisticated the young girls |
| sophisticate | (v) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive, Syn. doctor up, doctor, Example: Sophisticate rose water with geraniol |
| sophisticate | (v) make more complex or refined, Example: a sophisticated design |
| sophistication | (n) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject, Example: understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication |
| sophistication | (n) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment, Syn. worldliness, mundanity, mundaneness, Ant. naivete |
| sophistication | (n) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies, Example: he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason |
| Sophistical | His argument . . . is altogether sophistical. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] -- |
| Sophisticate | v. t. 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 ] |
| Sophisticated | So truth, while only one supplied the state, |
| Sophistication | n. [ Cf. LL. sophisticatio, F. sophistication. ] The act of sophisticating; adulteration; |
| Sophisticator | n. One who sophisticates. [ 1913 Webster ] |