adolescent
Meaning of adolescent
- (of a young person) in the process of developing from a child into an adult.
many parents find it hard to understand their adolescent children
- an adolescent boy or girl.
the books are aimed at children and adolescents
late Middle English (as a noun): via French from Latin adolescent- ‘coming to maturity’, from adolescere, from ad- ‘to’ + alescere ‘grow, grow up’, from alere ‘nourish’. The adjective dates from the late 18th century.
Information about adolescent
- The plural form of adolescent is: adolescents.
- Languages in which adolescent is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of adolescent
ado-les-cent
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- adolescent is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
adolescent synonyms
Meaning teen:
Meaning jejune:
Meaning stripling:
Meaning relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty:
Meaning young or seeming young:
Meaning having lived or existed for only a short time:
Meaning a child, young person, or young animal:
Meaning a young man:
Meaning a person under the age of full legal responsibility:
Meaning a boy attending school:
Meaning a girl attending school:
Meaning a male child or youth:
Meaning a female child:
Meaning a boy or young man (often as a form of address):
Meaning a girl or young woman:
Meaning a young bird that has just fledged:
Meaning a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident:
Meaning a child:
Meaning a young teenager, typically a girl, who keenly follows the latest fashions in clothes and pop music:
Meaning a child or young person:
Meaning an electric razor:
Meaning a clumsy or awkward youth:
adolescent antonyms
Meaning fully grown or developed:
Meaning a very young child or baby:
Translation of adolescent
- German: Teenager, Adoleszent, Teenagerin
- French: adolescent
- Spanish: adolescente
- Italian: adolescente
- Portuguese: adolescente
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