OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 17338

precocious

/pɹəˈkəʊʃəs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
precoz
Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
Now those abominations whom you call precocious boys—your little pet monsters, doctor!—and who can wonder that the world is what it is? when it is full of them—as they will have no…
The precocious plant was already blooming flowers by day 4.
precoz
Exhibiting advanced skills and aptitudes at an abnormally early age.
Mary: Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious / If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious.
The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four.