wunderkind

noun

wun·der·kind ˈvu̇n-dər-ˌkint

plural wunderkinder ˈvu̇n-dər-ˌkin-dər

: a child prodigy

also : one who succeeds in a competitive or highly difficult field or profession at an early age

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Many remember nostalgically the stars of the early Reagan years: James Baker as chief of staff, Caspar Weinberger as secretary of defense, and the wunderkind David Stockman as director of the Office of Management and Budget. —

Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 Jannik Sinner, the Italian tennis wunderkind, has swatted down opponents with ease since reaching his World No. 1 ranking. —

airmail.news, 23 Nov. 2024 Thus comes the new film from arthouse wunderkind Brady Corbet: a 70-mm., three-and-a-half-hour epic about a fictional Hungarian Holocaust survivor (Adrien Brody) who attempts to preach the architectural glory of raw concrete with the help of a mysterious benefactor (Guy Pearce). —

Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024 Born in 1897 in Austria-Hungary, Reich was a physician and a psychoanalyst of the second generation after Freud, who initially thought the youngster a wunderkind. —

Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 8 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for wunderkind