precocious
unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
prematurely developed, as the mind, faculties, etc.
of or relating to premature development.
Botany.
flowering, fruiting, or ripening early, as plants or fruit.
bearing blossoms before leaves, as plants.
appearing before leaves, as flowers.
Origin of precocious
1Other words from precocious
- pre·co·cious·ly, adverb
- pre·co·cious·ness, noun
- un·pre·co·cious, adjective
- un·pre·co·cious·ly, adverb
- un·pre·co·cious·ness, noun
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How to use precocious in a sentence
Woods participated in that December event alongside his 11-year-old son, Charlie, who wowed onlookers with his precocious skill.
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The film highlights four characters from the 2018 class, all of whom share an intense, precocious passion for politics but come from very different backgrounds—and often embrace opposing ideologies.
This will be salutary, and will deflate some of the pomposity-born-of-precociousness that bedevils Obama.
Is not its seeming wisdom rather the precociousness of what is destined never to go far?
The Soul of the Far East | Percival Lowell
That it should be practicable thus to entrust one infant to another proves the precociousness of children.
The Soul of the Far East | Percival LowellHe had laughed with the others at the Kid's quaint precociousness of speech and at his frank worship of range men and range life.
The Flying U's Last Stand | B. M. BowerHe was unusually bright, and gave promise, in his deportment and youthful precociousness, of reaching a splendid manhood.
A Prince of Anahuac | James A. PorterHe had seen in her precociousness, her healthy delight in books, nothing astonishing, and he had known nothing of her scribbling.
Otherwise Phyllis | Meredith Nicholson
British Dictionary definitions for precocious
/ (prɪˈkəʊʃəs) /
ahead in development, such as the mental development of a child
botany (of plants, fruit, etc) flowering or ripening early
Origin of precocious
1Derived forms of precocious
- precociously, adverb
- precociousness or precocity (prɪˈkɒsɪtɪ), noun
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Scientific definitions for precocious
[ prĭ-kō′shəs ]
Relating to or having flowers that blossom before the leaves emerge. Some species of magnolias are precocious.
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