HyperDic is a hyper-dictionary based on WordNet 2.1. This version links 147,249 word forms.
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| Shopping | The largest selection of SOPHISTICATE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| NOUN | 1 | sophisticate, man of the world | A worldly-wise person |
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| VERB | 1 | sophisticate | Make less natural or innocent |
| 2 | sophisticate, twist, twist around, pervert, convolute | Practice sophistry | |
| 3 | sophisticate, doctor, doctor up | Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | |
| 4 | sophisticate | Make more complex or refined |
| Sounds | sahfih'stahkaht; sahfih'stahkey.t |
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| Rhymes | abbot, abut, accredit, and 364 more rhymes in aht... |
| abate, abbreviate, abdicate, and 537 more rhymes in eyt... |
| Meaning | A worldly-wise person. |
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| Synonyms | man of the world |
| Broader | adult, grownup |
| Narrower | cosmopolitan, cosmopolite; slicker |
| Verbs | sophisticate |
| Meaning | Make less natural or innocent. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
| Examples | "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" |
| Broader | educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise |
| Nouns | sophisticate; sophistication |
| Meaning | Practice sophistry. Change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | twist, twist around, pervert, convolute |
| Broader | denote, refer |
| Nouns | sophistication; sophistication |
| Meaning | Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" |
| Synonyms | doctor, doctor up |
| Broader | adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase |
| Meaning | Make more complex or refined. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "a sophisticated design" |
| Broader | complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate |
| Nouns | sophistication |
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