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Adolescent

Adolescent Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Adolescent? [n] a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [adj] in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls" [adj] displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [adj] being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [adj] relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Adolescent: immature \| jejune \| juvenile \| puerile \| stripling \| teen \| teenage \| teenaged \| teenager \| young Related Terms \| Find terms related to Adolescent: at half cock \| baby \| callow \| fledgling \| green \| half-baked \| half-cocked \| half-grown \| hopeful \| ill-digested \| immature \| impubic \| infant \| junior \| juvenal \| juvenile \| maturescent \| minor \| nubile \| pubescent \| raw \| sapling \| slip \| sprig \| stripling \| teenager \| teener \| teenybopper \| underripe \| unfledged \| ungrown \| unmellowed \| unripe \| unseasoned \| young hopeful \| young person \| younger \| youngest \| youngling \| youngster \| youth See Also \| juvenile \| juvenile person \| mod \| pachuco \| punk \| punk rocker \| rocker \| young buck \| young man Adolescent In Webster's Dictionary \Ad`oles"cent\ ([a^]d`[-o]l[e^]s"sent), a. [L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See {Adult}.] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper. \Ad`o*les"cent\, n. A youth.

Adolescent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Adolescent?

[n] a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
[adj] in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"
[adj] displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
[adj] being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
[adj] relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"

Adolescent In Webster's Dictionary

\Ad`o*les"cent\ ([a^]d`[-o]*l[e^]s"sent), a. [L.
adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the
inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See {Adult}.]
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

      Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain
      their adolescent charge too long.        --Cowper.


\Ad`o*les"cent\, n.
A youth.

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