Thesaurus: adolescent
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Related headwords
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Definitions
- a. Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
- n. A youth.
- adj. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
- adj. being of the age 13 through 19
- adj. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
- adj. in the state of development between puberty and maturity
- n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
- Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. A youth.
- Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain theiradolescent charge too long. Cowper.
- j:34/n:66 n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity a. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent s. being of the age 13 through 19 s. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity