sophisticate

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verb
V_es/s
sophisticates
V_ing/Gerund
sophisticating
V_ed/pp
sophisticated
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.

    Đồng nghĩa: denaturalize, denature

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.

    Đồng nghĩa: complicate, enhance, hone, improve, optimize, perfect, polish

  3. 3.

    (also, reflexive, transitive)To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.

    Đồng nghĩa: broaden someone's horizons, deparochialize

  4. 4.

    (also, figuratively, transitive)To alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).

    Đồng nghĩa: abase, bastardize, dash, seduce, subvert, abase, adulter, adulterate, adulterize, alloy, balderdash, corrupt, bastardize, dash, dilute, embase, sophisticate, adulterate, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, detort, file, immoralize, lead astray, pervert, pollute, preposterate, seduce, sophisticate, suborn, subvert, tamper, unmoralize, vitiate, warp

  5. 5.

    (transitive)To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.

    Đồng nghĩa: distort, pervert, skew, twist

  6. 6.

    (archaic, transitive)To apply an artificial technique to (something).

  7. 7.

    (intransitive)To practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more sophisticate
Superlative
most sophisticate
  1. 1.

    Synonym of sophisticated (adjective).

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
sophisticates
  1. 1.

    A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English sophisticaten, from sophisticātus, the perfect passive participle of sophisticāre (to disguise; to tamper with; to trick using words) (see -ate for more). Sophisticāre is derived from Latin sophisticus (from Ancient Greek σοφιστικός, from σοφιστής, from σοφός (able, skilful; clever, intelligent, prudent, wise; cunning), further etymology unknown) + -ō.

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