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sophisticative

sophisticative adjective: deceptive; sophistical.

Adjective

sophisticative (comparative more sophisticative, superlative most sophisticative)

  1. deceptive; sophistical.
    • A cumbrous, circuitous, and often a sophisticative mode of commenting upon the Prophets, and of darkening their meaning, had taken the place of what might have been a nutritious popular instruction.1861, Isaac Taylor, The Spirit of the Hebrew Poetry, page 247

Forms of sophisticative

comparativemore sophisticative
superlativemost sophisticative

Questions about sophisticative

What does sophisticative mean?
Sophisticative means deceptive; sophistical.
What part of speech is sophisticative?
Sophisticative is an adjective.

Words near sophisticative in the dictionary

  1. sophisticatedness
  2. sophisticates
  3. sophisticating
  4. sophistication
  5. sophistications
  6. sophisticative
  7. sophisticator
  8. sophisticators
  9. sophisticism
  10. sophisticisms
  11. sophisto

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