Adolescent

/ˌæd.əˈlɛs.ənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
2. A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

Example Sentences

Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.

Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.

It may be wartime, but Miss Adolescent wants her fun!

Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’

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Antonyms for adolescent

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• more adolescent
• most adolescent
• adolescents

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