precocious
🇬🇧 UK/pri'kәuʃәs/🇺🇸 US
GREC2
Definitions
adj.
Showing unusually advanced abilities or maturity at a very early age.
早熟的,过早发育的
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedCommon Collocations
- 1.precocious talent早熟的天赋
- 2.precocious child早慧的孩子
- 3.precocious maturity过早的成熟
- 4.[remarkably precocious]异常早熟
Example Sentences
- 1.
The precocious child could read fluently by the age of three.
- 2.
Her precocious talent for music earned her a place at the national conservatory.
- 3.
Teachers were sometimes unsettled by the boy's precocious questions in class.