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Juvenile
| juvenile amaurotic idiocy
| juvenile body
| juvenile court
| juvenile delinquency
| juvenile delinquent
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Juvenile
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Juvenile has 1 sense
- juvenile(n = noun.person) juvenile person - a young person, not fully developed; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
has parts: juvenile body
has particulars: preteen, preteenager, adolescent, stripling, teen, teenager, child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster, ingenue, spring chicken, young person, younker, youth
Antonym: adult
Derived form adjective juvenile1
Adjective Juvenile has 2 senses
- juvenile(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions" Derived forms noun juvenile1, noun juvenility2
- juvenile(s = adj.all) adolescent, jejune, puerile - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" Derived form noun juvenility1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Juvenile, a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juvénile, juvénil. See Young.].
- Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
- Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum. [PJC]
Syn. -- Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.
Juvenile, n.
A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly. C. Bront'82. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Juvenile, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a young, youthful. b of or for young persons.
2 suited to or characteristic of youth.
3 often derog. immature (behaving in a very juvenile way).
--n.
1 a young person.
2 Commerce a book intended for young people.
3 an actor playing the part of a youthful person.
--adj.
1 a young, youthful. b of or for young persons.
2 suited to or characteristic of youth.
3 often derog. immature (behaving in a very juvenile way).
--n.
1 a young person.
2 Commerce a book intended for young people.
3 an actor playing the part of a youthful person.
Idiom
juvenile court a court for the trial of children under 17. juvenile delinquency offences committed by a person or persons below the age of legal responsibility. juvenile delinquent such an offender.
Derivative
juvenilely adv. juvenility n.
Etymology
L juvenilis f. juvenis young
THESAURUS
Juvenile
Roscius, 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, 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, youthyROGET THESAURUS
Juvenile
Youth
N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.
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