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Juvenile

Juvenile Meaning & Definition
Juvenile Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Juvenile?

[n] a youthful person
[adj] displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
[adj] of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Juvenile: adolescent | immature | jejune | juvenile person | puerile

Related Terms | Find terms related to Juvenile: actor | actress | adolescent | antagonist | at half cock | baby | babyish | bad guy | barnstormer | best seller | book | bound book | boy | callow | character | character actor | character man | character woman | chickabiddy | child actor | childish | classic | coloring book | definitive work | diseur | diseuse | dramatizer | feeder | fledgling | florescent | flowering | foil | folio | girl | great work | green | half-baked | half-cocked | half-grown | hardback | heavy | histrio | histrion | hopeful | ill-digested | immature | impubic | infant | infantile | ingenue | junior | juvenal | juvenescent | juvenile book | kid | limp-cover book | magnum opus | matinee idol | mime | mimer | mimic | minor | monologist | moppet | mummer | nipper | nonbook | notebook | novel | opus | opuscule | opusculum | pantomime | pantomimist | paperback | picture book | playactor | playbook | player | pocket book | prayer book | production | protean actor | psalmbook | psalter | pubescent | publication | puerile | puss | raw | reciter | Roscius | sapling | serial | sketchbook | slip | soft-cover | songbook | soubrette | sprig | stage performer | stage player | standard work | stooge | storybook | straight man | stripling | stroller | strolling player | teenaged | teenager | teener | teenybopper | theatrical | thespian | title | tome | trade book | trouper | underripe | unfledged | ungrown | unmellowed | unripe | unseasoned | unsophisticated | utility man | villain | volume | work | writing | young | young hopeful | young person | younger | youngest | youngling | youngster | youth | youthful | youthlike | youthy

See Also | adolescent | child | fry | human | individual | ingenue | juvenile body | kid | minor | mortal | nestling | nipper | person | preteen | preteenager | shaver | small fry | somebody | someone | soul | spring chicken | stripling | teenager | tiddler | tike | tyke | young person | youngster | younker | youth

Juvenile In Webster's Dictionary

\Ju"ve*nile\ (?; 277), a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juv['e]nile, juv['e]nil. See {Young}.] 1. Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. ``A juvenile exercitation.'' --Glanvill. 2. Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports. Syn: Puerile; boyish; childish. See {Youthful}.
\Ju"ve*nile\, n. A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly. --C. Bront['e].

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