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4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Adolescent \Ad`o*les"cent\ ([a^]d`[-o]*l[e^]s"sent), a. [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. [1913 Webster] Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Adolescent \Ad`o*les"cent\, n. A youth. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: adolescent adj 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" n : a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: {stripling}, {teenager}] 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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