Definitions for youthful
ˈyuθ fəlyouth·ful

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. youthful, vernal, youngadjective

   suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

   "he is young for his age"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. youthfuladjective

   Young or seeming young.

2. youthfuladjective

   Characteristic of young people.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Youthfuladjective

   Etymology: youth and full.

   1. Young.

   Our army is dispers’d already:
   Like youthful steers unyok’d they took their course,
   East, west, north, south. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

   There, in a heap of slain, among the rest,
   Two youthful knights they found beneath a load opprest
   Of slaughter’d foes. Dryden.

   2. Suitable to the first part of life.

   Here be all the pleasures
   That fancy can beget on youthful thoughts,
   When the fresh blood grows lively, and returns
   Brisk as the April buds in primrose season. John Milton.

   In his years were seen,
   A youthful vigour and autumnal green. Dryden.

   The nymph surveys him, and beholds the grace
   Of charming features, and a youthful face. Alexander Pope.

   3. Vigorous as in youth.

   How is a good Christian animated by a stedfast belief of an everlasting enjoyment of perfect felicity, such as, after millions of millions of ages is still youthful and flourishing, and inviting as at the first? no wrinkles in the face, no grey hairs on the head of eternity. Richard Bentley.

Webster Dictionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Youthfuladjective

   not yet mature or aged; young

2. Youthfuladjective

   also used figuratively

3. Youthfuladjective

   of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports

4. Youthfuladjective

   fresh; vigorous, as in youth

How to pronounce youthful?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say youthful in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of youthful in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of youthful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of youthful in a Sentence

1. Henry Anatole Grunwald:

   Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.

2. William E. Channing:

   Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

3. Ricard:

   It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

4. Kanoa Igarashi:

   It's truly fun and interesting for me but, you know, what I want to do is shape the image of surfing in Japan to be more youthful and to bring a younger crowd.

5. Don Lane:

   She's really connected with our target audience : She's youthful, she's joyous and she's more than meet than eye.

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