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adolescent - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'adolescent' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Adolescent [ a.]
- Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
2 . Adolescent [ n.]
- A youth.

Meaning of 'adolescent' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . adolescent [ a]
Meaning (1):
- relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
Example in sentence:
  • adolescent problems
2 . adolescent [ s]
Meaning (2):
- in the state of development between puberty and maturity
Example in sentence:
  • adolescent boys and girls
Meaning (3):
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
Example in sentence:
  • adolescent insecurity;
  • jejune responses to our problems;
  • puerile jokes;
  • their behavior was juvenile
Meaning (4):
- being of the age 13 through 19
Example in sentence:
  • teenage mothers;
  • the teen years

Nearby Words:

ado adobe adolescence adolescency adonean adonic adonis adonist adonize adoor

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