Thesaurus / precocious

precocious

How to use precocious in a sentence

They have been used for decades to treat children who start showing signs of puberty before age 8 or 9, a condition known as precocious puberty.

From an early age, she was held to high academic standards and proved a precocious scholar.

Here is the one about the precocious tyke who convinced her family to take a chance on a deaf puppy.

Rashida Adkins was drawn to journalism as a precocious pre-teen.

Not only are puberty blockers reversible, but their original use included assisting cisgender children who were undergoing precocious puberty.

Thus died the greatest statesman of the eighteenth century, and the most precocious in our annals.

These childish verses prove a precocious desire for expression, before the right medium had been discovered.

Exemplary punishment is to be visited upon me for "precocious godlessness, dangerous tendencies, and insubordination."

In crossing to Niagara, we had a specimen of the precocious colonist of 1845.

CANADA AND THE CANADIANSSIR RICHARD HENRY BONNYCASTLE

She was very precocious, a thorough student, and would allow nothing to divert her from her studies.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985