Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sophomoric \Soph`o*mor"ic\, Sophomorical \Soph`o*mor"ic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a sophomore; resembling a sophomore; hence, pretentious; inflated in style or manner; as, sophomoric affectation. [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore 2 conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature 3 pretentious; inflated in style or manner
Usage examples of "sophomoric".
The music was too loud, and, anyway, the four of us had sworn a terrible sophomoric oath to reveal nothing to nobody.
That was when they stopped talking about brilliant breakthroughs, and started talking about sheer crass sophomoric stupidity.
And he had been such unpromising material to start with: a lazy, spottily brilliant young instructor, dangerously contemptuous of academic life, taking a sophomoric pleasure in shocking his staid colleagues, with a suicidal tendency to make major issues out of minor disputes with deans and presidents.
Was it the novelty of the shared bed, and the presence of another brain humming near his, that disturbed the privacy of the somnorific - and rather sophomoric - routine?
It was edited, if one takes semiliteracy, quadruple amputee syntax and sophomoric screeds against any writer with aspirations of writing literature above the level of shootouts in space as editing, by one Jake Repnich.
Or how many good people have put their necks out to save you from the consequences of your sophomoric showboating, do you?
Besides, he has to resist this sophomoric tendency to take notes all the time.