单词 | sophomoric |
释义 | sophomoricadj.n. Chiefly U.S. a. Of or pertaining to, befitting or resembling, characteristic of, a sophomore; hence, pretentious, bombastic, inflated in style or manner; immature, crude, superficial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [adjective] > 2nd or 3rd year student sophomoric1837 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic fleshyc1369 windya1382 unmeasureda1425 puffing1566 embossed1578 puffed1587 bombasted1589 fustian1592 puffya1594 full-mouthed1594 orificial1594 gouty1595 swelling1597 mouth-filling1598 taffeta1598 bombast1601 tiptoe-strouting1602 turgidous1602 swollen1605 dropsieda1616 exsufflicatea1616 turgent1621 ampullous1622 tympanous1625 high-flown1632 tumorousa1637 blustered1638 tumid1648 bombastical1649 ranting1650 inflated1652 tuftaffetya1658 pompiona1670 bombastic1704 dropsical1721 thundering1725 turgid1725 exsuffolate1744 Lexiphanic1767 hi cockalorum1783 Ossianic1788 mouthing1814 mouthy1827 sophomoric1837 highfalutin1839 sophomorical1847 spread eagle1853 tumescent1882 Herodian1886 Ossianesque1889 Barnumesque1890 1837 Harvardiana Sept. 22 Better to face the prowling panther's path Than meet the storm of sophomoric wrath! 1852 T. Parker Ten Serm. Relig. (1863) iv. 68 Our poor pedant, with his sophomoric wit. 1889 W. M. Thayer Life A. Lincoln xxiv. 313 It is quite common for an actor to come upon the stage, and, in a sophomoric style, to begin with a flourish. b. Of persons. Also elliptical as n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic > using bombastic style mouthy1589 fustian1600 mouthing1627 bombastic1727 ranting1771 bloviating1851 telegraphese1881 sophomoric1891 society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > 2nd or 3rd year student sophister1574 sophister1650 sophumer1653 soph1661 sophomore1688 sophomore1726 soph1778 freshman-sophomore1851 sophomoric1946 1891 E. Field Truth about Horace in Bk. Western Verse 22 To students sophomoric They'd present as metaphoric What old Horace meant for facts. 1900 Speaker 29 Dec. 346/2 A mere sophomoric wordmonger. 1946 W. H. Auden in Harvard Alumni Bull. 15 June 707/1 The sophomoric Who face the future's darkest hints With giggles or with prairie squints. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1837 |
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