Under-age

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  underage \un"der*age`\ ([u^]n"d[~e]r*[i^]j), a.
     Shortage or deficiency in amount; shortfall. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Under-age \Un"der-age`\, a.
     1. Not having arrived at adult age; hence, incapable legally
        of performing certain acts restricted to adults.
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     2. Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of
        discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish.
        [Obs.]
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              I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a
              great deal of under-age protestation. --J. Webster.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
     dependere. See {Depend}, and cf. {Dependant}.]
     1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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     2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
        able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
        without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
        self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon;
        as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of
        {independent}. [Narrower terms: {interdependent,
        mutualist, mutually beneficial}; {parasitic, parasitical,
        leechlike, bloodsucking}; {subordinate}; {underage};
        {myrmecophilous}; {symbiotic}] Also See: {unfree}.
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              England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
              power of the first rank.              --Macaulay.
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     3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of
        {unconditional}.
  
     Syn: qualified.
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     4. addicted to drugs.
  
     Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
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     {Dependent covenant} or {Dependent contract} (Law), one not
        binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
  
     {Dependent variable} (Math.), a varying quantity whose
        changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
        changes in another variable, which is called the
        {independent variable}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  underage
       adj 1: not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: {minor}, {nonaged}]
              [ant: {major}]
       2: dependent by virtue of youth

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "underage":
     budding, callow, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, dewy, green,
     growing, immature, impubic, inadequacy, inexperienced, ingenuous,
     innocent, insufficiency, intact, juicy, lack, minor, naive,
     new-fledged, raw, ripening, sappy, scantiness, shortage, tender,
     unadult, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed,
     unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal