plural of sophister

Enlightenment or education. / Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire. / Deceptive logic; sophistry. / Falsification or contamination. / Complexity. / Ability to deal with complexity.

One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece. / (figuratively) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.

Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan. / Elegant, refined. / Complicated, especially of complex technology. / Appealing to the tastes of an intellectual; cerebral.

simple past tense and past participle of sophisticate

A worldly-wise person.

(transitive) To make less natural or innocent. / To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.

Not genuine; not pure; adulterated.

plural of sophist

A sophist. / (dated, UK, US, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.