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• The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.From the entry overpass
• I smile a Botox smile because they think Julia is simply a chatty, precocious child.2014, Tina Traster, Melissa Fay Greene, Rescuing Julia Twice, page 181. From the entry Botox smile
• For us, they are the whole package—fantastic foliage, precocious bloom, and beautiful flowers.2006, C. Colston Burrell, Judith Knott Tyler, Hellebores: a comprehensive guide, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry whole package
• The organ-grinders were at work; but they were always precocious harbingers.1903–1906, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Easter of the Soul”, in The Voice of the City, complete edition, Garden City…. From the entry organ grinder
• He breaks the bad news with a sweet paternal touch and enrols the orphan in his Hogwartsian school for precocious mutants.2019 June 7, Matthew Norman, “Let’s hope this phoenix never rises from the ashes”, in Evening Standard, page 28. From the entry Hogwartsian
• A precocious mathematician, Babbage was already well versed in the Continental mathematical notations when he went up to Cambridge.2002, Peter Harman, Cambridge Scientific Minds, page 79. From the entry up
• Max is a perfectly nice name, ensuring its owner a certain precocious sensibility, but there are enough Maxes now.2002, Cynthia Heimel, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry max
• In examining Capote, Clarke follows the course of the precocious writer's life with painstaking attention to gossipy detail.1988 December 11, Elizabeth Pincus, “Truman Capote: The Gossip, The Dirt”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7. From the entry immersion
• Her eyes are telling me, "Eat my shorts, you precocious little fart." I definitely haven't made a friend.1988, Greg Matthews, The Gold Flake Hydrant, page 232. From the entry eat my shorts
• In Study 4, we tested whether our tasks could be used to evidence precocious second-order metarepresentational abilities (i.e. capacities to represent representations of representations).2015 October 21, “Epistemology for Beginners: Two- to Five-Year-Old Children's Representation of Falsity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry metarepresentational
• The precocious child’s wide range of interests often causes adults to believe he or she is hyperactive, has an attention-deficit disorder and is easily distracted.1980 November 13, Saul Kapel, “[Parents & children] Problems of gifted children”, in Daily News, New York, N.Y., page 54, column 4. From the entry attention-deficit disorder
• It was apparent even that in some lines of inquiry or of action a child might be altricious and in others precocious.1913 February, W. E. Chancellor, “Temperament and the Education of Foreigners […] ”, in Educational Foundations, volume 24, number 6, A.S.…. From the entry altricious
• In considering the young we must distinguish between the altricious and precocious species, and remember that between such extremes every shade of difference exists.1908 May 29, Francis H. Herrick, “The Relation of Instinct to Intelligence in Birds”, in Science, volume 27, number 700, →OCLC, page 848. From the entry altricious
• Shorter tracts have been associated with idiopathic precocious pubarche, increased severity and earlier age onset of prostate cancer, whereas longer CAG tracts have been associated with oligospermic infertility.2016 February 6, “The Presence of Clitoromegaly in the Nonclassical Form of 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency Could Be Partially Modulated by the…. From the entry oligospermic
• You are fully revealed, you piddling little pseudo homuncle, in all your precocious pretentiosity in your comment on the able, highly skilful AND completely convincing film.1973 October 10, Punch, page 513. From the entry pretentiosity
• Miss Carroll's popularity doesn't end with her on-screen performances in the show which co-stars young Marc Copage as her precocious six-year-old son, Corey Baker, whose father Capt.1968 October 17, Jet, volume 35, number 2, page 61. From the entry corey
• For the most part, not only are these patients remarkably witty and precocious in replies and reactions, but they are, in the main, intelligent as well.1929 February, Walter Timme, “Pluriglandular Syndrome: Involving Calcium Deficiency and Correlated with Behavior Disturbances”, in…. From the entry bad-temperedness

Meaning of precocious

1. adjective Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
2. adjective Exhibiting advanced skills and aptitudes at an abnormally early age.

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How do you use precocious in a sentence?

Precocious is used as an adjective. For example: “The precocious plant was already blooming flowers by day 4.”

What is a short sentence with precocious?

“Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.”

What does precocious mean?

Precocious means characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.