Word of the Day - Sophomoric

[debodun]

Sophomoric (adjective) - intellectually pretentious but poorly informed and immature; childish.

The celebrity gave sophomoric responses to the reporter's questions.

 

[caroln]

Sounds like one of my grandchildren. She thinks she "knows it all" and doesn't realize how silly she sounds sometimes.

 

[Nemo2]

During my second year of post-secondary I was sophomoric...from then on I was catatonic.

 

[JustDave]

I knew it was immature and childish, but I never thought of it as intellectually pretentious. At best, I assumed a sophomoric person was trying to seem smart, but never actually getting there. Would that qualify as intellectually pretentious?

 

[multimodAL]

the etymology of sophomoric seems to be oxymoronic or at least qualifies both synonymously...

"Sophomores get a bad rap. A lot of people seem to think they're foolish (no matter what they do), when they themselves know they're pretty wise. The history of the words sophomore and sophomoric (which developed from sophomore) proves that it has always been tough to be a sophomore. Those words probably come from a combination of the Greek terms sophos (which means "wise") and mōros (which means "foolish")."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sophomoric

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron

 

[Warrigal]

I read soporific. I never heard of sophomoric before, probably because we don't refer to university students as sophomores where I come from. They are just called undergrads.

Sophomoric doesn't roll off the tongue all that easily.