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- Tuntematon aksentti:
- IPA: [səˈfɪstɪkət]
- IPA: [səˈfɪstɪkeɪt]
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A person who is sophisticated, or who has sophisticated tastes.
Verbit
- To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
- To make (something) more sophisticated; to develop, to refine.
- (also, reflexive) To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated; to cosmopolitanize.
- (also, figuratively) 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.).
- To change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
- (archaic) To apply an artificial technique to (something).
- (intransitive) To practise sophistry.
Adjektiivit
- Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
- Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
- (obsolete) Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
- (obsolete) Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Esimerkit
- Patrick: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.
- SpongeBob: Yea verily!
- Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [sc. between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].
- Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. — M. Arnold.
- To sophisticate the understanding. — Southey.
- They purchase but sophisticated ware. — Dryden.
- To sophisticate wine. — Howell.
- So truth, while only one supplied the state, / Grew scarce and dear, and yet sophisticate.
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