precocious
/prih-KOH-shus/adjectivehaving developed abilities at an unusually early age
“A precocious twelve-year-old audited the calculus class.”
- Synonyms
- advanced, gifted, forward
- Antonyms
- slow, backward
- Memory hook
- prae + coquere (ripen): ripened early.
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