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SOPHISTICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sophistical mean?
• SOPHISTICAL (adjective)
The adjective SOPHISTICAL has 1 sense:
1. plausible but misleading
Familiarity information: SOPHISTICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plausible but misleading
Synonyms:
sophistic; sophistical
Similar:
invalid (having no cogency or legal force)
Derivation:
sophist (someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious)
Context examples
If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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