Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or characteristic of a sophomore.
- adjective Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a sophomore or a sophomore class.
- Characteristic of the traditional sophomore; bombastic; inflated; conceited; complacently ignorant; immature and over-confident.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective United States Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or characteristic of a
sophomore - adjective
conceited andoverconfident ofknowledge butpoorly informed andimmature - adjective
pretentious ;inflated in style or manner
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Examples
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To call the musical -- praised on its way to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and additional kudos -- "sophomoric" is to flatter it.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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To call the musical -- praised on its way to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and additional kudos -- "sophomoric" is to flatter it.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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To call the musical -- praised on its way to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and additional kudos -- "sophomoric" is to flatter it.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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To call the musical -- praised on its way to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and additional kudos -- "sophomoric" is to flatter it.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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To call Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson sophomoric is to flatter it.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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To call Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson sophomoric is to flatter it.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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South Carolina's governor is not confessing his "sins"; he's simply indulging himself in sophomoric, locker room bragging about his sexual exploits.
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If you are in sales or marketing it is essential that you understand the nuance of language, and you probably think that you do, but consider the word sophomoric:
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*********You’re a sophomoric idiot from the Greek word ‘idiotis’.
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The vibe I got off of Gary--who, note, claims to be of the Left--is the same obnoxious one that drove me away from the Left in the States, namely the sophomoric insistence on the irrelevance of seemingly superficial differences.
confusion 2006
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