Crude and superficial.
1847. We now greet our friend A. B., as a Sophomore…. We trust he will add by his example no significancy to that pithy word, ‘Sophomoric.’…. Carried a composition to Professor ——…. The Professor told me it was rather Sophomorical. Wonder what he intended by that epithet.—Wells and Davis, ‘Sketches of Williams College, pp. 63, 74.
1854. Students are looked upon as being necessarily Sophomorical in literary matters.—Williams Quarterly, ii. 84: B. H. Hall, ‘College Words,’ p. 439 (1856).
1873. “Am I not a little less sophomorical than I used to be,” he once asked his good friend.—W. S. Tyler, ‘Hist. Amherst Coll.,’ 498.
