Look up: Adolescent

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   adolescent
   [adj] - relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent 2. [adj] - being of the age 13 through 19 3. [adj] - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity 4. [adj] - in the state of development between puberty and maturity 5. [n] - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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   Adolescent
   Ad`o·les'cent (ăd`o*lĕs's e nt) adjective [ Latin adolescens , present participle of adolescere to grow up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: confer French adolescent . See Adult .] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. « Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. ...
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   Adolescent
   Ad`o·les'cent noun A youth.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/32
   
   
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   adolescent
   <paediatrics> An individual during the period of adolescence. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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   adolescent
   jejune adjective displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; `adolescent insecurity`; `jejune responses to our problems`; `their behavior was juvenile`; `puerile jokes`
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   adolescent
   teen adjective being of the age 13 through 19; `teenage mothers`; `the teen years`
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   adolescent
   adjective in the state of development between puberty and maturity; `adolescent boys and girls`
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   adolescent
   adjective relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; `adolescent problems`
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   adolescent
   stripling noun a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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    Adolescent
    • (a.) Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. • (n.) A youth.
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    adolescent
    an individual during the period of adolescence.
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    adolescent
    adolescent 1. Going through the period of adolescence; such as, adolescent males and females. 2. Typical of someone who is immature. 3. Etymology: from Latin adolescent from adolescere, 'to be nourished, to grow up'. This is also the source of English adult from alere, 'to nourish'. A teenager who acts like a baby when you don't treat him like an adult. ...
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    adolescent
    a teenager
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