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Sophist soph·ist

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IPA: /ˈsɒf ɪst/

Sophist is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in Sophist (hiopsst).

Definitions for Sophist

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a 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.
2. a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
3. a philosopher.

Origin of Sophist

1535-45; Latin sophista Greek sophistḗs sage, derivative of sophízesthai

Examples for Sophist

And this is Plato's reply, both in the Cratylus and sophist.

Again, there is a third line, in which a sophist may be traced.

And now by the help of this example we may proceed to bring to light the nature of the sophist.

The seller of the arts may be called an art-seller; the seller of virtue, a sophist.

But the sophist is the Proteus who takes the likeness of all of them; all other deceivers have a piece of him in them.

Plato does not really mean to say that the sophist or the Statesman can be caught in this way.

To the Parmenides, the sophist stands in a less defined and more remote relation.

And Plato does not on this ground reject the claim of the sophist to be the true philosopher.

There is little worthy of remark in the characters of the sophist.

If his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The sophist.