sophomoric
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8.1
About the second year of study at school or college
- adjective
- /ˌsɑːfəˈmɔːrɪk/
- US
:
de segundo año
- His sophomoric jokes made it hard to take him seriously during the presentation.
Examples
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That's not what sophomoric means.
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It was an educational, exciting, turbulent, and sophomoric three months before I quit amid differences with management.
Blog text (29) -
The sophomoric debates in our college class often lacked depth and maturity.
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She wrote a sophomoric essay that demonstrated her impulsive approach to the subject.
Synonyms
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2.4
A student in their second year at high school or university
is used to describe qualities of that year rather than the year group
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3.3
Relating to the second year of college or high school in the US
is an adjective describing characteristics of that second academic year
How Advanced
Surface Forms
sophomoric positive
Morphology
Etymology
Sophomoric is also linked to sophomore, which comes from Greek sophos ('wise') and moros ('foolish') and originally meant 'half-wise'. So sophomoric can mean 'relating to a second-year student' because a sophomore is in their second year and still learning.