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Adolescent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Adolescent has 1 sense
- adolescent(n = noun.person) stripling, teen, teenager - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity; Array is a kind of juvenile, juvenile person
has particulars: chebab, mod, pachuco, punk, punk rocker, rocker, young buck, young man
Derived forms verb adolesce1, adjective adolescent4, adjective adolescent2
Adjective Adolescent has 4 senses
- adolescent(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems" Derived forms verb adolesce1, noun adolescence2
- adolescent(s = adj.all) teen, teenage, teenaged - being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" Derived forms verb adolesce1, noun adolescence1, noun adolescent1
- adolescent(s = adj.all) jejune, juvenile, puerile - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
- adolescent(s = adj.all) Array - in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls" Derived forms verb adolesce1, noun adolescence1, noun adolescent1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Adolescent, 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. [1913 Webster]
"Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long." [1913 Webster]
Detain their adolescent charge too long." [1913 Webster]
Adolescent, n.
A youth. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Adolescent, adj. & n.
--adj. between childhood and adulthood.
--n. an adolescent person.
--adj. between childhood and adulthood.
--n. an adolescent person.
Derivative
adolescence n.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L adolescere grow up
THESAURUS
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, youthROGET THESAURUS
Adolescent
Adolescence
N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.
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