Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.
- adjective Characteristic of adolescence; immature: synonym: young.
- noun A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing up; advancing from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- noun One who is growing up; a person of either sex during the period of adolescence.
- In physical geography, noting that stage of land-sculpture, between youth and maturity, in which some rapids still remain even in the larger streams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
- noun A youth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Characteristic of, orrelating to, orundergoing adolescence ;immature . - noun A
teenager ; ajuvenile afterpuberty
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
- adjective displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
- noun a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
- adjective in the state of development between puberty and maturity
- adjective being of the age 13 through 19
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"The evidence strongly suggests that investing in adolescent girls is a key way to break inter-generational patterns of poverty."
World Bank, Nike Team Up For 'The Girl Effect' Initiative 2010
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"The evidence strongly suggests that investing in adolescent girls is a key way to break inter-generational patterns of poverty."
World Bank, Nike Team Up For 'The Girl Effect' Initiative 2010
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We know that the adolescent is spontaneously homosexual.
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In a world where political leaders lose themselves, like Wagnerian Gods, in adolescent diversions, great artists such as Wagner provide reminders of what's at stake when human beings fail to address the real issues at hand.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold Albert Imperato 2010
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In a world where political leaders lose themselves, like Wagnerian Gods, in adolescent diversions, great artists such as Wagner provide reminders of what's at stake when human beings fail to address the real issues at hand.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold Albert Imperato 2010
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Someone ought to do a study on how many times Americans have freaked out about a new trend in adolescent sexual habits.
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I agree with a lot of this, although I think it's complicated by the fact that the rise of the popular music industry was also fueled by an economic quirk: the post-WWII increase in adolescent disposable income.
Glass and steel Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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I agree with a lot of this, although I think it's complicated by the fact that the rise of the popular music industry was also fueled by an economic quirk: the post-WWII increase in adolescent disposable income.
Archive 2009-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Think about it: industrialist builds wealth by building stuff; rich heirs drift leftward and, in adolescent fashion, rail against the industry that provided them with their affluence.
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In a world where political leaders lose themselves, like Wagnerian Gods, in adolescent diversions, great artists such as Wagner provide reminders of what's at stake when human beings fail to address the real issues at hand.
Albert Imperato: My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold Albert Imperato 2010
Prolagus commented on the word adolescent
The Weirdnet paradox is back! Compare with shoddy.
October 10, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word adolescent
Actually, in this case I think it's just defining the adjectival use in terms of the noun use.
October 11, 2008