SOPHISTICATES Synonyms

• growing or occurring in many parts of the world

• composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests

• a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries

• of worldwide scope or applicability

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• having a sophisticated charm

• having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air

• possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

• characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

• refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

• having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation

• highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

• alert and fully informed

• thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

• perfected or made shiny and smooth

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

• (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• having a sophisticated charm

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• possessing sound knowledge

• characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

• very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world

• rolled longitudinally upon itself

• curl, wind, or twist together

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• a licensed medical practitioner

• (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching

• children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office

• a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• give medical treatment to

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

• a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• change the inherent purpose or function of something

• an unforeseen development

• an interpretation of a text or action

• any clever maneuver

• the act of rotating rapidly

• a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• a circular segment of a curve

• a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

• a jerky pulling movement

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s

• the act of winding or twisting

• turning or twisting around (in place)

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• turn in the opposite direction

• form into a spiral shape

• form into twists

• extend in curves and turns

• do the twist

• twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive

• a worldly-wise person