adolescent
adjective /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/Definition
› being or relating to an adolescent: an adolescent boy adolescent concerns/traumas/problemsDescribing people who are young › describes an adult or an adult's behaviour that is silly and like a child's: adolescent humour/behaviourStupid and sillyOf unsound mind
(Definition of adolescent adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- fresh-faced adjective
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- juvenile adjective
- little adjective (YOUNG)
- prepubescent adjective
- pubescent adjective
- slip noun (SMALL)
- small adjective (YOUNG)
- tender adjective (YOUNG)
- time noun (HISTORICAL PERIOD)
- tweenager noun
- underage adjective
- yoof adjective
- young adjective
- youthful adjective
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