sophistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of sophistical, of or related to the ancient Sophists, characterized by fallacious reasoning.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”).
noun
Alternative letter-case form of sophistic.
Example Sentences
- "[…] he is simply translating into Marxian terms the Sophistic view “that the more powerful will always take advantage of the weaker, and will give the name of law and justice to whatever they lay down in their own interests.”"
- "But when we consider his wish to reconcile Philosophy and Rhetoric, it must be remembered that, if the new Sophistic differed in most of its essential features from the Sophistic of Plato’s contemporaries, it was Philosophy as conceived by Isocrates rather than Plato that Themistius had in mind."
- "Rather, to use Whitman’s phrase, Sophokles “thought through” a great deal more of the sophistic than their attacks on religion or their fascination with religion."
- "The luminaries of the ‘first sophistic’—Philostratus cites Gorgias, Critias, and others—treated, we are told, abstract philosophical themes."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin sophisticus, borrowing of Ancient Greek σοφιστικός (sophistikós). Equivalent to sophist + -ic and sophism + -istic.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more sophistic (comparative)
most sophistic (superlative)