Meaning of JUVENILE
| Pronunciation: | | 'joovunl
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | adolescent, immature, jejune, juvenile person, puerile |
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| | Antonyms: | | adult, grownup | | |
| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | |  Juvenile
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Definition: | | - A young or sexually immature animal; relating to such a young animal.
- Of leaves, formed on a young plant and different in form from the adult leaves.
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| | Definition: | | the period in an individual's life cycle that lasts from the eruption of the first to the eruption of the last permanent teeth. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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