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sophisticate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/səˈfistəˌkāt/,
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sophisticating, present participle; sophisticates, 3rd person singular present; sophisticated, past tense; sophisticated, past participle;
  1. Sophisticated

Verb
  1. Cause (a person or their thoughts, attitudes, and expectations) to become less simple or straightforward through education or experience
    • - readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice
  2. Develop (something such as a piece of equipment or a technique) into a more complex form
    • - functions that other software applications have sophisticated
  3. Talk or reason in an impressively complex and educated manner

  4. Mislead or corrupt (a person, an argument, the mind, etc.) by sophistry
    • - books of casuistry, which sophisticate the understanding and defile the heart
Noun
  1. A person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture
    • - he is still the butt of jokes made by New York sophisticates
  1. a worldly-wise person
  2. make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls"
  3. twist: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
  4. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
  5. make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
  6. (The Sophisticates) The Aristocrats (also known as The Debonaires or The Sophisticates in some tellings) is an exceptionally transgressive dirty joke that has been told by numerous stand-up comedians since the vaudeville era. ...