precocious
prih-KOH-shusadjMeaning showing skills or behavior unusually early for one’s age
Memory hook PRE-COOK-ious: COOKS before age five. Ivy is only four, yet she cooks a whole breakfast: pancakes, eggs and toast. She is precocious: ripe early.
The precocious toddler could read the cereal box before she turned three.
In context Most kindergartners just ask for juice, but precocious little Theo asked the waiter whether the orange juice was freshly squeezed.
Similar advanced, gifted, forward, mature for one’s age
Opposite immature, late-blooming
From Latin praecox, “ripening early”: prae (before) + coquere (to cook, to ripen).