Adolescent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence. See Synonyms at young.
  • adj. Characteristic of adolescence; immature: an adolescent sense of humor.
  • n. A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity; a teenager.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.
  • n. A teenager; a juvenile after puberty
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
  • n. A youth.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Growing up; advancing from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
  • n. One who is growing up; a person of either sex during the period of adolescence.
  • In physical geography, noting that stage of land-sculpture, between youth and maturity, in which some rapids still remain even in the larger streams.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
  • adj. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
  • n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
  • adj. in the state of development between puberty and maturity
  • adj. being of the age 13 through 19
  • Equivalent
    immature    young   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    growing    youth   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    teenage    teenager    youthful    juvenile    schoolboy