Adjective

(en adjective)

Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.

* 1848, , Bantam Classics (1997), 16:

"Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous , and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Sedley did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."

Adjective

(en adjective)

Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.

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Both groups, also, have already evolved precocious (intracapsular) spore germination.

Exhibiting advanced skills at an abnormally early age.

The precocious child began reading the newspaper at age four.