Young

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
  • adj. Newly begun or formed; not advanced: The evening is still young.
  • adj. Of, belonging to, or suggestive of youth or early life: He is young for his age.
  • adj. Vigorous or fresh; youthful.
  • adj. Lacking experience; immature: a young hand at plowing.
  • adj. Being the junior of two people having the same name.
  • adj. Geology Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
  • n. Young persons considered as a group; youth: entertainment for the young.
  • n. Offspring; brood: a lioness with her young.
  • idiom. with young Pregnant. Used of an animal.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
  • adj. As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
  • adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
  • adj. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • n. People who are young; young beings.
  • n. The younger generation.
  • n. Offspring.
  • v. To become or seem to become younger
  • v. To cause to appear younger
  • v. To exhibit younging
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals.
  • adj. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth.
  • adj. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • n. The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In physical geography, exhibiting an early stage of the geographic cycle, when sculpture or dissection is not far advanced.
  • Being in the first or early stage of life; not long born; not yet arrived at maturity or full age; not old: said of animals: as, a young child; a young man; a young horse.
  • Being in the first or early stage of growth: as, a young plant; a young tree.
  • Being in the first or early part of existence generally; not yet far advanced, of long duration, or of full development; recent; newly come to pass or to be.
  • Having the appearance and freshness or vigor of youth; youthful in look or feeling; fresh; vigorous.
  • Having little experience; ignorant; raw; green.
  • Pertaining or relating to youth; spent or passed during youth; youthful: as, in his younger days he was very hot-headed.
  • Junior: applied to the younger of two persons, especially when they have the same name or title: as, young Mr. Thomas Ray called with a message from his father.
  • Newly or lately arrived.
  • n. Offspring collectively.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. not tried or tested by experience
  • adj. being in its early stage
  • n. United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
  • n. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
  • adj. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
  • n. young people collectively
  • n. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
  • n. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
  • n. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
  • n. English poet (1683-1765)
  • n. any immature animal
  • adj. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
  • adj. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
  • n. British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
    • Equivalent
    inexperient    inexperienced    new    early    immature    girlish    preadolescent    schoolboyish    little    boyish   
    Antonym
    old    grown    mature   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    religious leader    ballplayer    baseball player    cohort    age bracket    age group    civil rights leader    civil rights activist    civil rights worker    saxophonist   
    Cross Reference
    recent    young beer    young flood    young america    young ireland    younger hand    with young    young of the year    young blood    young italy   
    Variant
    youngest    younger   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    juvenile    inexperienced    unpracticed    ignorant    weak    junior    underdeveloped    undeveloped    youthful    immature   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sung    among    bung    clung    dung    flung    fung    hung    lung    overhung   
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    old    handsome    intelligent    innocent    thick    great    cold    nose    few    little   
     
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