postadolescent love

Definitions

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  • adjective Occurring after a period of adolescence.
  • noun One who has grown out of adolescence.

Etymologies

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post- +‎ adolescent.

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Examples

  • And I spend a lot of time with barely postadolescent men, I said, rolling my eyes.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • This is an eruption of postadolescent, you know, perversity, which found its voice in unions and in the media.

    President Gingrich? 2011

  • And I spend a lot of time with barely postadolescent men, I said, rolling my eyes.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Always leaping before they look, the barely postadolescent blunderers of "Go" keep suffering dire consequences from dimly perceived causes.

    Dark Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • Whatever understanding Hong Kong teenage girls were piecing together about the postadolescent world from these sources, it is safe to say that it was not unconflicted.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk.

    'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk.

    'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • I found it almost impossible to imagine what he would look like in thirty years; there was something about his great height and his rangy, hollowed-out body that struck me as perpetually postadolescent.

    Insignificant Others Stephen McCauley 2010

  • This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk.

    'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010

  • This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk.

    'Alice': Half a Wonderland Joe Morgenstern 2010

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