Explore Sophisticate through 2 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like adult or refer. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sophisticate in a sentence
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Sophisticate meaning
- To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
- To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
- To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
Synonyms of Sophisticate
Using Sophisticate
- The main meaning on this page is: To make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize. | To make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine. | To make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
- Useful related words include: adult, refer, denote, convolute.
Context around Sophisticate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 10 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sophisticate
- In this selection, "sophisticate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 10 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a sophisticate and a and became the sophisticate s choice. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sophisticate" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sophisticate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It became the sophisticate's choice. (6 words)
Cleese's two primary characterisations were as a sophisticate and a stressed-out loony. (14 words)
Cleese's two primary characterisations were as a sophisticate and a stressed-out loony. (14 words)
It became the sophisticate's choice. (6 words)
Example sentences (2)
It became the sophisticate's choice.
Cleese's two primary characterisations were as a sophisticate and a stressed-out loony.