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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024soph•ist /ˈsɑfɪst/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Philosophyone who reasons cleverly but not truthfully.
See -soph-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024soph•ist (sof′ist),USA pronunciation n. - Philosophy(often cap.) [Gk. Hist.]
- Philosophyany of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
- Philosophya person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- Philosophya person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
- a philosopher.
- Greek sophisté̄s sage, derivative of sophízesthai
- Latin sophista
- 1535–45
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sophist /ˈsɒfɪst/ n - (often capital) one of the pre-Socratic philosophers who were itinerant professional teachers of oratory and argument and who were prepared to enter into debate on any matter however specious
- a person who uses clever or quibbling arguments that are fundamentally unsound
Etymology: 16th Century: from Latin sophista, from Greek sophistēs a wise man, from sophizesthai to act craftily |