The Word of the Day. Sophomoric • \sahf-MOR-ik\ • adjective 1 : conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature 2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore Examples: Judds behavior at the party was sophomoric, but Ive seen a more mature side to him in other settings. [T]his central character that I ended up playing … is a guy whos had his feelings hurt. He elects to try to fix his problem by crashing a kids spelling bee. That has some relevance in his revenge scenario.… His execution of that, though, is pretty sophomoric…. — Jason Bateman, National Public Radio, March 17, 2014 Did you know? Sophomores get a bad rap. A lot of people seem to think theyre foolish (no matter what they do), when they know theyre 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). But sophomores can take comfort in the fact that some very impressive words, including philosopher and sophisticated, are also related to sophos.
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:33:28 +0000
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