adolescent

[Ad`o*les·cent]

Adolescent is just a fancy word for teenager someone who is no longer a child but is not yet an adult. The word can also be used as an adjective. For example, a particular clothing line might be geared toward adolescent girls.

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A youth.

Noun
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

Adjective S.
in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"

Adjective S.
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"

Adjective S.
being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"

Adjective
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"

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a.
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

n.
A youth.


Adolescent

Ad`o*les"cent, n. A youth.

A youth.

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Usage Examples

When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.

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Other Usage Examples

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

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