adolescent

  • (a) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
    • adolescent problems
  • (s) being of the age 13 through 19
    • teenage mothers
    • the teen years
    teen, teenage, teenaged,
  • (s) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
    • adolescent insecurity
    • jejune responses to our problems
    • their behavior was juvenile
    • puerile jokes
    jejune, juvenile, puerile,
  • (s) in the state of development between puberty and maturity
    • adolescent boys and girls

Nouns

Synonyms

stripling teen teenager teenage teenaged jejune juvenile puerile

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