Young

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  • adjective. Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.
  • adjective. Newly begun or formed; not advanced.
  • adjective. Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life.
  • adjective. Lacking experience; immature.
  • adjective. Being the junior of two people having the same name.
  • adjective. Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
  • noun. Young persons considered as a group; youth.
  • noun. Offspring; brood.
  • idiom. (with young) Pregnant. Used of an animal.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In physical geography, exhibiting an early stage of the geographic cycle, when sculpture or dissection is not far advanced.
  • Being in the first or early stage of life; not long born; not yet arrived at maturity or full age; not old: said of animals: as, a young child; a young man; a young horse.
  • Being in the first or early stage of growth: as, a young plant; a young tree.
  • Being in the first or early part of existence generally; not yet far advanced, of long duration, or of full development; recent; newly come to pass or to be.
  • Having the appearance and freshness or vigor of youth; youthful in look or feeling; fresh; vigorous.
  • Having little experience; ignorant; raw; green.
  • Pertaining or relating to youth; spent or passed during youth; youthful: as, in his younger days he was very hot-headed.
  • Junior: applied to the younger of two persons, especially when they have the same name or title: as, young Mr. Thomas Ray called with a message from his father.
  • Newly or lately arrived.
  • noun. Offspring collectively.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
  • noun. with child; pregnant.
  • adjective. Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals.
  • adjective. Being in the first part, pr period, of growth.
  • adjective. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
  • adjective. As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
  • adjective. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
  • adjective. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
  • noun. People who are young; young beings.
  • noun. The younger generation.
  • noun. Offspring.
  • verb. To become or seem to become younger
  • verb. To cause to appear younger
  • verb. To exhibit younging
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. not tried or tested by experience
  • adjective. being in its early stage
  • noun. United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
  • noun. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
  • adjective. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
  • noun. young people collectively
  • noun. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
  • noun. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
  • noun. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
  • noun. English poet (1683-1765)
  • noun. any immature animal
  • adjective. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
  • adjective. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
  • noun. British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
  • Word Usage
    "God forgives the inattention at Mass of an old man when he sleeps; of a young man when he loves; and the wandering attention of an _old_ man blessed with a _young_ heart the Almighty will surely pardon, for He Himself must admire beauty, since He made it. '"
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    grown  mature  old  
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    has_topic
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
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    Sung  among  bung  clung  dung  
    Same Context
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    American  Greek  bad  best  big  
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    variant
    younger  youngest