Word Meanings - SOPHISTICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They

Additional info about word: SOPHISTICATE

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They purchase but sophisticated ware. Dryden. Syn. -- To adulterate; debase; corrupt; vitiate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOPHISTICATE)

• Medicate
• Treat
• compound
• amalgamate
• adulterate
• sophisticate
• drug
• Prevaricate
• Shuffle
• quibble
• equivocate
• palter
• evade
• Confuse
• interchange
• shift
• intershift
• intermix
• derange
• agitate
• prevaricate
• cavil
• mystify
• dissemble
• Varnish
• Glaze
• gloss
• disguise
• palliate
• embellish
• furbish

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SOPHISTICATE)

• Resolve
• analyze
• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss
• Fix
• fasten
• locate
• insert
• pitch
• plant
• place

Related words: (words related to SOPHISTICATE)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.