sophistic

[ suh-fis-tik ]

adjective

1. of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
2. characteristic or suggestive of sophistry.
3. given to the use of sophistry.
4. of or relating to sophists or sophistry.

sophistic

/ səˈfɪstɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to sophists or sophistry
2. consisting of sophisms or sophistry; specious

Derived Forms

• soˈphistically, adverb

Other Words From

• so·phis·ti·cal·ly adverb
• so·phis·ti·cal·ness noun
• an·ti·so·phis·tic adjective
• non·so·phis·tic adjective
• non·so·phis·ti·cal adjective
• non·so·phis·ti·cal·ly adverb
• non·so·phis·ti·cal·ness noun
• un·so·phis·tic adjective
• un·so·phis·ti·cal adjective
• un·so·phis·ti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of sophistic¹

1540–50; < Latin sophisticus < Greek sophistikós, equivalent to sophist ( ḗs ) ( sophist ) + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

The reaction of the Socratic school against the Sophistic may serve to illustrate the third stage of thinking.

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Lack of merit may be so complete, so grotesque, that the composition affords to the sophistic eye a high order of comedy.

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But what will become of our young gentleman, if he be attacked with the sophistic subtlety of some syllogism?

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Hitherto such writers have confined their view mostly to speculative points, sophistic reasonings, and sarcastic interpellations.

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This consequence of the Sophistic principles was drawn both by many of the Sophists themselves, and later by the Cyrenaics.

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