Sophist Synonyms

sŏfĭst
One who makes adverse comments
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thinker
  2. clever thinker
  3. caviler
  4. rhetorician
Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. casuist

Words Related to Sophist

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. critic
  2. pedant
  3. philosopher
  4. stoics
  5. epicurus
  6. gorgias
  7. plotinus
  8. parmenides
  9. protagoras
  10. epicureans
  11. pythagoreans
  12. plato
  13. phaedo

Sophist Sentence Examples

  • Carneades, practically a 5th-century sophist, is the most important of the ancient sceptics.

  • As a pupil of the sophist Prodicus he acquired facility in public speaking.

  • When the servile Athenians, feigning to share the emperor's displeasure with the sophist, pulled down a statue which they had erected to him, Favorinus remarked that if only Socrates also had had a statue at Athens, he might have been spared the hemlock.

  • The philosopher, as he says, investigates truth; the sophist embellishes it, and takes it for granted.

  • This work is imitated by the third Philostratus (or by some later sophist) of whose descriptions of pictures 17 remain.

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