1. A captions or fallacious reasoner; originally, a wise men; ultimately, a class of philosophers in ancient Greece, of the type of the so-called advanced thinkers of modern times, who assailed the conventional on merely subjective grounds.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• sophos,
• sophistes,
• sopost,
• sophiste,
• soppost,
• sophias,
• sophis,
• sophies,
• aopmict,
• sodimist,
• sophise,
• sophiest,
• sophyst,
• sothmost,
• eiphuist,
• euphyist,
• sofism,
• sophicl,
• sophiester,
• sefst

• soapstone,
• soapsuds,
• sophistic,
• sophistry.

The adjective form of the word "sophist" is "sophistic".

The plural of the "sophist" can be the "sophists".

The singular of the "sophist" can be the "sophist".