Meaning of ADOLESCENT
| Pronunciation: | | `ad'lesunt
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | immature, jejune, juvenile, puerile, stripling, teen, teenage, teenaged, teenager, young |
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| | See Also: | | juvenile, juvenile person, mod, pachuco, punk, punk rocker, rocker, young buck, young man | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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