Definition of sophist
1
: philosopher
2
capitalized
: any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the fifth century b.c. for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning
3
: a captious or fallacious reasoner
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