Adolescent

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
  • noun. A youth.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.
  • noun. A teenager; a juvenile after puberty
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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