different between sophisticated vs sophist

English

Etymology

First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.

Adjective

sophisticated (comparative more sophisticated, superlative most sophisticated)

1. Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
2. Elegant, refined.
3. Complicated, especially of complex technology.
4. Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.
5. (obsolete, Britain) Dishonest or misleading.
6. (obsolete, Britain) Impure; adulterated.

Synonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience): worldly
• (elegant, refined): refined

Antonyms

• (having obtained worldly experience): provincial

Related terms

• sophisticate
• sophist
• sophistry
• philosophy

Translations

Verb

sophisticated

1. simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

References

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997

English

Etymology

From Latin sophista, also sophistes, from Ancient Greek ???????? (sophist?s, “pursuer of wisdom”), from ?????????? (sophízesthai, “become wise”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?f?st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?so?f?st/

Noun

sophist (plural sophists)

1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
2. (loosely) A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
3. (loosely, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.

   Synonym: logic chopper

4. (dated) Alternative form of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”)

Usage notes

• The meaning of "sophist" can vary depending on the time period to which one is referring. A sophist of the earliest period was a master in his art or craft who demonstrated (taught by example) his practical skill/learning in exchange for pay. Later sophists were providers of a well-rounded education intended to give pupils arete – "virtue, human excellence". By late antiquity, sophist?s / sophistes tended to denote exclusively a skilled public speaker and/or teacher of rhetoric.

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