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1. (adj.) adolescent
growing to adulthood; youthful.
2. adolescent
of or pertaining to adolescence.
3. adolescent
characteristic of adolescence; immature.
4. (n.) adolescent
a person in the period of adolescence; teenager.
Etymology: (1475–85; < L adolēscent-, prp. of adolēscere to grow up, mature, inchoative of adolēre; see adult)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
2. (adj) adolescent
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
"adolescent problems"
3. (adj) adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged
being of the age 13 through 19
"teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
4. (adj) adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
"adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
5. (adj) adolescent
in the state of development between puberty and maturity
"adolescent boys and girls"
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1. (noun) adolescent
sb between the ages of 12 and 18; = teenager
adolescent behavior
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) ADOLESCENT
growing; advancing from childhood to maturity
2. (noun) ADOLESCENT
a youth
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. ADOLESCENT
A person 13 to 18 years of age.
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Sense: in the stage between childhood and adulthood.
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 Afrikaans: adolessentig |
 Arabic: مُرَاهِق |
 Bulgarian: юношески |
 Brazilian: adolescente |
 Czech: mladistvý |
 German: jugendlich |
 Danish: halvvoksen; ung; teenage- |
 Greek: εφηβικός |
 Spanish: adolescente |
 Estonian: noorukieas, teismeeas |
 Farsi: بالغ |
 Finnish: nuori |
 French: adolescent |
 Hebrew: מִתְבָּגֵר |
 Hindi: किशोर |
 Croatian: adolescentan |
 Hungarian: serdülő |
 Indonesian: remaja |
 Icelandic: tánings-, unglings- |
 Italian: adolescente |
 Japanese: 青年期の |
 Korean: 청춘의, 젊은 |
 Lithuanian: paaugliškas, paaugęs |
 Latvian: pusaudžu-; pusaugu- |
 Malay: remaja |
 Dutch: in de puberteit |
 Norwegian: tenårings-, ungdoms- |
 Polish: młodociany |
 Persian: بالغ |
 Pashto: ځوان |
 Portuguese: adolescente |
 Romanian: adolescent |
 Russian: подростковый |
 Slovak: mladistvý |
 Slovenian: mladosten, mladostniški |
 Serbian: pubertetski |
 Swedish: ung, tonårs-, tonårig |
 Thai: ซึ่งยังเยาว์วัย |
 Turkish: yeni yetme |
 Taiwanese: 青春期的 |
 Ukrainian: юний; юнацький |
 Urdu: نو بلوغت ، عنفوانِ شباب |
 Vietnamese: vị thành niên |
 Chinese: 青春期的 |
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