Synonyms of the word

sophisticate

• n. A worldly-wise person.
• v. To make less natural or innocent.
• v. To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
• v. To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
• v. To make more complex or refined.
• adj. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

adult

• n. A fully grown human or animal.
• n. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.
• adj. Fully grown.
• adj. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
• adj. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.
• v. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

adulterate

• adj. Tending to commit adultery.
• adj. Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
• v. To corrupt.
• v. To spoil by adding impurities.
• v. To commit adultery.
• v. To defile by adultery.

civilise

• v. To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
• v. To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably…
• v. To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.

civilize

• v. Alternative spelling of civilise.

complicate

• v. (transitive) To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
• v. (transitive) to expose involvement in a convoluted matter.
• adj. (obsolete) Intertwined.
• adj. (now rare, poetic) Complex, complicated.

convolute

• v. (transitive) To make unnecessarily complex.
• v. (transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
• adj. (botany, of a leaf) coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect…

cultivate

• v. To grow plants, notably crops.
• v. To nurture; to foster; to tend.
• v. To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.

debase

• v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
• v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

denote

• v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
• v. (transitive) To make overt.
• v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

dilute

• v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
• v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
• v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
• v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
• adj. Having a low concentration.
• adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

doctor

• n. A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The…
• n. A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees…
• n. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
• n. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
• n. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
• n. (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
• n. A fish, the friar skate.
• v. (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• v. (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
• v. (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or…
• v. (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
• v. (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

educate

• v. to instruct or train.

elaborate

• adj. Highly complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
• adj. Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy.
• v. (intransitive) (used with on when used with an object) To give further detail or explanation (about).

grownup

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
• adj. Adult; fully developed; mature.
• n. An adult. (used especially by children).

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

rarify

• v. Alternative spelling of rarefy.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

refine

• v. (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
• v. (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
• v. (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance etc.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
• v. (transitive) To make nice or subtle.

school

• n. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
• n. A multitude.
• v. (intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
• n. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
• n. (Britain) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education…
• n. (Britain) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
• n. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which…
• n. An art movement, a community of artists.
• n. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular…
• n. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
• n. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
• n. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class…
• n. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
• v. (transitive) To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.).
• v. (transitive) To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
• v. (transitive) To control, or compose, one's expression.

stretch

• v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
• v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
• v. (transitive) To pull tight.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
• v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
• v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
• v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
• v. (transitive) To increase.
• v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
• v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
• n. An act of stretching.
• n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
• n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
• n. A segment of a journey or route.
• n. A segment or length of material.
• n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
• n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
• n. A length of time.
• n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
• n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

train

• n. Elongated portion.
• n. Connected sequence of people or things.
• v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
• v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
• v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
• v. To proceed in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
• v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
• v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
• v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
• v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
• n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
• n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
• n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
• n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.