About The Word Adolescent
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Adolescent
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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`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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