 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adolescent
adjective
1: relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent;
"adolescent problems"
2: being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen
years" [syn: {teen}, {teenage}, {teenaged}]
3: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: {jejune}, {juvenile},
{puerile}]
4: in the state of development between puberty and maturity;
"adolescent boys and girls"
noun: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: {stripling},
{teenager}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adolescent \Ad'o*les"cent\ ([a^]d'[-o]*l[e^]s"sent), adjective [L.
adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the
inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See {Adult}.]
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong,
Detain their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adolescent \Ad'o*les"cent\, noun
A youth.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "adolescent":
at half cock, baby, callow, fledgling, green, half-baked,
half-cocked, half-grown, hopeful, ill-digested, immature, impubic,
infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, maturescent, minor, nubile,
pubescent, raw, sapling, slip, sprig, stripling, teenager, teener,
teenybopper, underripe, unfledged, ungrown, unmellowed, unripe,
unseasoned, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest,
youngling, youngster, youth
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