sophistical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry.
adj
Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally.
Example Sentences
- "This is, we believe, a fair summary of Mr. Lamb's doctrine. We are sure that we do not wish to represent him unfairly. […] But we must plainly say that his argument, though ingenious, is altogether sophistical."
- "Assuming other people to be as sophistical as ourselves, and as intent as we upon winning the argument, they are likely to be no more honest than we."
Etymology
From Middle English sophistical, sophisticale, sophisticall, from Anglo-Latin sophisticālis, equivalent to sophist + -ical.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: sophistical, sophisticālis
Inflected Forms
more sophistical (comparative)
most sophistical (superlative)