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SOPHISTICATING

14 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 28 pts

SOPHISTICATING is a valid 14-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 28 in Super Big Boggle.

SOPHISTICATING root SOPHISTICATE

verb
  1. transitiveTo make (something) less innocent or natural; to artificialize.
  2. transitiveTo make (something) more sophisticated (“complex, developed, or refined”); to develop, to refine.
  3. alsoreflexivetransitiveTo make (oneself or someone) more sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”); to cosmopolitanize.
  4. alsofigurativelytransitiveTo alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention to deceive; to adulterate; (generally) to corrupt or deceive (someone, their thinking, etc.).
  5. transitiveTo change the meaning of (something) in a deceptive or misleading way.
  6. archaictransitiveTo apply an artificial technique to (something).
  7. intransitiveTo practise sophistry (“the (deliberate) making of arguments that seem plausible but are fallacious or misleading”).
adjective
  1. Of a person: experienced in the ways of the world; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
  2. Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1.1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
  3. obsoleteMixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; adulterated, impure.
  4. obsoleteOf a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
noun
  1. A person who is sophisticated (“experienced in the ways of the world, that is, cosmopolitan or worldly-wise”), or who has sophisticated tastes.