Adolescent

Quick meaning: Adolescent is an adjective meaning Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• adolescents

Synonyms for adolescent

Depending on context, synonyms include puerile, jejune, juvenile, teen, immature, young.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include teenaged, teenager, teen, young, juvenile, stripling.

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