Precocious in a sentence as an adjective

" And wow, is that kid precocious, or what?

You'd have to be pretty precocious to give high quality answers at age 10 or 5.

Plus the fallback in the face of a precocious child of adding the number of minutes * 60?

Background on the precocious child prodigy turned market whiz 3.

"What's wrong with just showing one gaming ad to a precocious dinosaur-loving kid, she'll be able to concentrate on her studies later.

I discovered this link while digesting replies I received on three different email lists to a request to name experts on mathematically precocious young people.

It was this perspective of humility in the face of eventually being passed up, which is so rare in externally validated precocious children, that I found inspiring.

I'd like one message to come across to all child-prodigies and precocious geniuses: You're not a "rare natural resource", "human capital" or any other such demeaning term.

He thought I was some precocious kid who had coded up a whizbang inventory module for acme corportation, so he expected nice tables with rows & columns of data on optimal number of nuts & bolts.

If you want to shake the pillars of computer programming, you need to be able to do more than say "everything is ****," and if you can't, then you sound like nothing more than surly, precocious, ignorant teenager.

I would compare myself unfairly to historical luminaries as a yardstick of what I should be accomplishing at what age. I worked incredibly hard, but on intractable problems and not on reasonable pieces of research for even a precocious mathematician.

I did something like this once many years ago for one of my wife's students, a precocious high-schooler who needed to be challenged beyond the elementary Fortran she was teaching at the vocational school.

Though you only helped one kid, someone else helped me......I was once the precocious high-schooler; in my History class I put a .com file in the program's directory that ran a look-alike program which didn't in fact work - on perhaps the only IBM PC in the school.

From the abstract of the actual study:- "Cool" => "Pseudomature behavior—ranging from minor delinquency to precocious romantic involvement"- "Lose" => "Early adolescent pseudomature behavior predicted long-term difficulties in close relationships, as well as significant problems with alcohol and substance use, and elevated levels of criminal behavior.

Precocious definitions

adjective

characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude); "a precocious child"; "a precocious achievement"

adjective

appearing or developing early; "precocious flowers appear before the leaves as in some species of magnolias"