All English words - page 5461

Meanings of Soothingly:

adverb

In a way that makes you feel calm

Usage examples:

Noah talked soothingly to him, asking him questions, telling him everything was all right., encoura…

Meanings of Soothsayer:

noun

A person supposed to be able to foresee the future.

Usage examples:

Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with …

Meanings of Soothsayers:

noun

A person supposed to be able to foresee the future.

Usage examples:

Do you really think that while they're arresting heretics is the best time to be having trade with …

Meanings of Sootier:

adjective

Covered with or coloured like soot.

Usage examples:

His olive skin and sooty eyes

Meanings of Sootiest:

adjective

Covered with or coloured like soot.

Usage examples:

His olive skin and sooty eyes

Meanings of Sooting:

verb

Cover or clog (something) with soot.

Usage examples:

You have previously sooted the underside of their plate by holding it over a candle

noun

A deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter.

Usage examples:

Diesel particulate matter consists of soot mixed with anything from volatile organic compounds to s…

Meanings of Soots:

verb

Cover or clog (something) with soot.

Usage examples:

You have previously sooted the underside of their plate by holding it over a candle

noun

A deep black powdery or flaky substance consisting largely of amorphous carbon, produced by the incomplete burning of organic matter.

Usage examples:

Diesel particulate matter consists of soot mixed with anything from volatile organic compounds to s…

Meanings of Sooty:

adjective

Covered with or coloured like soot.

Usage examples:

His olive skin and sooty eyes

Meanings of Sop:

noun

A thing of no great value given or done as a concession to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met.

Usage examples:

My agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work

verb

Soak up liquid using an absorbent substance.

Usage examples:

He used some bread to sop up the sauce

Meanings of Sop-up:

phrasal verb

To absorb a liquid

Usage examples:

She spilled some orange juice and sopped it up with paper towels.

Meanings of Sophies:

noun

A former title for the ruler of persia, associated especially with the safavid dynasty.

Usage examples:

In the middle ages, the king of persia was known to the western world as "the great sophy", derived…

Meanings of Sophism:

noun

A clever but false argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive.

Usage examples:

And style, said flaubert, is a very manner of seeing things, adding that distinctions between thoug…

Meanings of Sophisms:

noun

A clever but false argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive.

Usage examples:

And style, said flaubert, is a very manner of seeing things, adding that distinctions between thoug…

Meanings of Sophist:

noun

A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in greece in the classical and hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.

Usage examples:

His mistress aspasia and the sophist anaxagoras were perhaps prosecuted.

Meanings of Sophisticate:

verb

Make (someone or something) more sophisticated.

Usage examples:

Readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice

adjective

Sophisticated.

Usage examples:

The sous chef prepares both raw and cooked vegan cuisine for the sophisticate palate at this florid…

noun

A person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

Usage examples:

He is still the butt of jokes made by new york sophisticates

Meanings of Sophisticated:

adjective

Having, revealing, or involving a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

Usage examples:

A chic, sophisticated woman

verb

Make (someone or something) more sophisticated.

Usage examples:

Readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice

Meanings of Sophisticates:

verb

Make (someone or something) more sophisticated.

Usage examples:

Readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice

noun

A person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

Usage examples:

He is still the butt of jokes made by new york sophisticates

adjective

Sophisticated.

Usage examples:

The sous chef prepares both raw and cooked vegan cuisine for the sophisticate palate at this florid…

Meanings of Sophisticating:

verb

Make (someone or something) more sophisticated.

Usage examples:

Readers who have been sophisticated by modern literary practice

adjective

Sophisticated.

Usage examples:

The sous chef prepares both raw and cooked vegan cuisine for the sophisticate palate at this florid…

noun

A person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.

Usage examples:

He is still the butt of jokes made by new york sophisticates

Meanings of Sophistication:

noun

The quality of being sophisticated.

Usage examples:

Her air of sophistication and confidence

Meanings of Sophistries:

noun

The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.

Usage examples:

Trying to argue that i had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry

Meanings of Sophistry:

noun

The use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.

Usage examples:

Trying to argue that i had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry

Meanings of Sophists:

noun

A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in greece in the classical and hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.

Usage examples:

His mistress aspasia and the sophist anaxagoras were perhaps prosecuted.

Meanings of Sophocles:

proper noun

(c.496–406 bc), greek playwright. his seven surviving plays are notable for their complexity of plot and depth of characterization, and for their examination of the relationship between mortals and the divine order. notable plays: antigone and oedipus rex (also called oedipus tyrannus).

Meanings of Sophomore:

noun

A second-year university or high-school student.

Usage examples:

Freshmen performed better than either sophomores or juniors

Meanings of Sophomores:

noun

A second-year university or high-school student.

Usage examples:

Freshmen performed better than either sophomores or juniors