Definition of sophisticate

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so·phis·ti·cate    (s-fst-kt) KEY 

VERB:
so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates
VERB:
tr.

1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.
2. To make impure; adulterate.
3. To make more complex or inclusive; refine.

VERB:
intr.

To use sophistry.

NOUN:
(-kt)

A sophisticated person.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English sophisticaten, to adulterate, from Medieval Latin sophisticre, sophistict-, from Latin sophisticus, sophistic, from Greek sophistikos, from sophists, sophist ; see sophist

OTHER FORMS:
so·phisti·cation(Noun), so·phisti·cator(Noun)