Definitions for sophistic

sophistic so·phis·tic

Spelling: [suh-fis-tik or suh-fis
IPA: /səˈfɪs tɪk or səˈfɪs tɪ kəl/

Sophistic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in sophistic (chiiopsst).

Definitions for sophistic

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.

Origin of sophistic

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

Examples for sophistic

Does not the opposition of these sophistic arguments remind you of brambles, that the wind has entangled one with another?

Mr. Jowett censures this speech as sophistic and confused in view.

Thus the sophistic position that man is for man the measure of all things is irrefutable.

It exhibits, after all allowance for peculiar Greek sentiments, the rhetorical development of a sophistic thesis.

The truth is, that there is no clear distinction between the matter of Dialectic and the matter of sophistic.

What they had, perhaps, acquired from the sophistic movement was a touch of effrontery.

Her honesty was like pure gold, unalloyed, unmixed with sophistic subterfuges.

Your disciple, who is plying me with all sorts of sophistic arguments, I blame him not; he is under illusion (my).

The sophistic philosophy should be characterized as the clearing up reflection.

Mr. Poste observes in his note: The sophistic locus of tautology may be considered as a caricature of a dialectic locus.

Word Value for sophistic
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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