soph | (noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: sophomore |
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sophism | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophistication, sophistry |
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sophist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: casuist |
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sophistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to sophists | - |
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(adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistical |
sophistical | (adjective) plausible but misleading | Synonyms: sophistic |
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sophisticate | (noun) a worldly-wise person | Synonyms: man of the world |
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(verb) make more complex or refined | - |
(verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive | Synonyms: doctor, doctor up |
(verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, twist, twist around |
(verb) make less natural or innocent | - |
sophisticated | (adjective) having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire | - |
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(adjective) ahead in development; complex or intricate | Synonyms: advanced |
(adjective) intellectually appealing | - |
sophistication | (noun) falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies | - |
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(noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, worldliness |
(noun) uplifting enlightenment | Synonyms: edification |
(noun) being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject | - |
(noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistry |
sophistry | (noun) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | Synonyms: sophism, sophistication |
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sophomore | (adjective) used of the second year in United States high school or college | Synonyms: second-year |
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(noun) a second-year undergraduate | Synonyms: soph |