precocious
Example Sentences
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This has meant the show has spent more time with the very relatable Dunk and his precocious charge Egg.
From Los Angeles Times
When I share things like that, people often say, “My, aren’t you precocious, Elizabeth.”
From Literature
Which is an issue because the three Flynn daughters are unusually precocious.
"What would an incredibly precocious child, who remembers everything he ever thought - because computers don't forget things - feel like when he started talking?"
From BBC
Macaulay was a self-made man elevated to the pinnacle of Britain’s ruling class, thanks to his precocious intelligence and scholarly brilliance.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
