Adolescent - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˌædəˈlesnt|
Brit.
|ædəˈles(ə)nt|
noun
adjective
- being of the age 13 through 19 (syn: teen, teenage)
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity (syn: jejune, juvenile, puerile)
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity (syn: jejune, juvenile, puerile)
adolescent insecurity
- in the state of development between puberty and maturityadolescent boys and girls
Extra examples
Their children are now adolescents.
...an adolescent sheepdog, who hasn't quite gotten the hang of keeping the sheep huddled together...
...would hope that the college students had outgrown such adolescent behavior...
...those adolescent rogueries that seemed funny at the time—but only stupid when considered in hindsight...
...a repressed memory that left a huge void in her recollection of her adolescent years...
There'll be no rest for me with this querulous adolescent.
She's every adolescent schoolboy's dream.
Word forms
noun
singular: adolescent
plural: adolescents
singular: adolescent
plural: adolescents
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