precocious
adjective
unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development.
unprecocious
-
a word derived from
precocious.
Example Sentences
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This work, printed and sold by W. Belch of Newington Butts, consists of four marine pieces on a sheet, most comfortably unprecocious and as wooden as a Dutch doll.
From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson
We hear little about his childhood, he being a wholesomely unprecocious boy.
From George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer
It wasn’t much better when, at the very unprecocious age of two, I gave vent to an inarticulate utterance which, among those who ought to have known better, passed for speech.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
Even the primeval stages of psychic growth are rarely so all-sided, so purely unsolicited, spontaneous, and unprecocious, as not to be in a sense a fall from Froebel's unconsciousness or rest in God.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
