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Synonyms for adolescent
ˌæd lˈɛs əntado·les·cent
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
adolescent
Boyish, childish, and girlish are used in a good sense of those to whom they properly belong, but in a bad sense of those from whom more maturity is to be expected; childish eagerness or glee is pleasing in a child, but unbecoming in a man; puerile in modern use is distinctly contemptuous. Juvenile and youthful are commonly used in a favorable and kindly sense in their application to those still young; youthful in the sense of having the characteristics of youth, hence fresh, vigorous, light-hearted, buoyant, may have a favorable import as applied to any age, as when we say the old man still retains his youthful ardor, vigor, or hopefulness; juvenile in such use would belittle the statement. Young is distinctively applied to those in the early stage of life or not arrived at maturity. Compare NEW.
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Synonyms:
boyish, callow, childish, childlike, girlish, immature, juvenile, puerile, young, youthful
Princeton's WordNet
adolescent, stripling, teenager, teenadjective
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
adolescentadjective
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
"adolescent problems"
adolescent, teen, teenage, teenagedadjective
being of the age 13 through 19
"teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerileadjective
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
"adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
Synonyms:
teen, teenaged, insubstantial, teenage, insipid, jejune, juvenile, puerileadolescentadjective
in the state of development between puberty and maturity
"adolescent boys and girls"
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "adolescent":
adolescents, teenage, teenager, teenagers, teen, adolescence, teens, adolescente, adolescentes, youth, yp, teenaged, juvenile, youngsters, juveniles
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#432 | teen | |
#571 | young | |
#1131 | teens | |
#1607 | youth | |
#5252 | teenage | |
#5790 | juvenile | |
#9386 | adolescent | |
#10101 | teenagers | |
#12266 | adolescents | |
#13756 | teenager | |
#20393 | adolescence | |
#20521 | youngsters | |
#20629 | yp | |
#21772 | youthful | |
#22794 | immature | |
#24127 | juveniles | |
#28446 | childish | |
#45154 | adolescente | |
#57800 | childlike | |
#64362 | boyish | |
#64691 | teenaged | |
#69701 | callow | |
#72074 | insipid | |
#80110 | adolescentes | |
#90000 | girlish | |
#90817 | insubstantial | |
#113760 | stripling | |
#119384 | puerile | |
#315230 | jejune |
How to use adolescent in a sentence?
There's concern that the adolescent brain may be more vulnerable to the addictive effects of nicotine, the circuits underlying pleasure and the pursuit of novel, enjoyable experiences develop much faster than the circuits that promote decision making, impulse control and rational thinking.
Other data has shown quite nicely that if you have an elevated( BMI) early on in life, it sets you up for childhood and then adolescent obesity later on in life.
At this point, I am not likely to personally recommend that my adolescent population get a booster shot, however, I do have some adolescents with underlying medical conditions.
For the bulk of my life, I would say up until my seventies, I spent my life like a double image, like a double exposure, as an adolescent, in order to fit in, I made sure no one especially boys or men could see who I really was ; that I could get really angry, that I could not be pretty, that I could be tough. I went through life not whole.
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
Translations for adolescent
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- فتىArabic
- үҫмерBashkir
- девойка, юношески, юношаBulgarian
- adolescentCatalan, Valencian
- dospívajícíCzech
- JugendlicheGerman
- έφηβοςGreek
- chica, muchacha, adolescente, chico, muchachoSpanish
- برناPersian
- nuoriFinnish
- adolescentFrench
- òganach, òigear, ògailScottish Gaelic
- adolescenteGalician
- kamasz, kamaszkoriHungarian
- պատանիArmenian
- 少年, 青春, 少女Japanese
- adolescentiaLatin
- малолетничка, малолетникMacedonian
- remajaMalay
- nastoletni, nastolatka, nastolatek, dojrzewającyPolish
- moço, rapaz, adolescente, moça, raparigaPortuguese
- adolescentă, adolescentRomanian
- юноша, юношеский, подросток, подростковый, девушкаRussian
- adolescentSerbo-Croatian
- mladoletnica, mladoleten, mladoletnikSlovene
- కౌమారTelugu
- підлітокUkrainian
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