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adolescent

[ ad-l-es-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. having the characteristics of adolescence or of an adolescent.


noun

  1. an adolescent person.

    Synonyms: , ,

adolescent

/ ˌæ»åəˈ±ôÉ›²õÉ™²Ô³Ù /

adjective

  1. of or relating to adolescence
  2. informal.
    behaving in an immature way; puerile
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an adolescent person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²¹»åo·±ô±ð²õc±ð²Ô³Ù·±ô²â adverb
  • ±è´Ç²õ³Ùa»å·´Ç·±ô±ð²õc±ð²Ô³Ù adjective noun
  • ²õ³Ü²úa»å·´Ç·±ô±ð²õc±ð²Ô³Ù adjective noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of adolescent1

First recorded in 1475–85; from Latin ²¹»å´Ç±ôŧ²õ³¦±ð²Ô³Ù- (stem of ²¹»å´Ç±ôŧ²õ³¦Å§²Ô²õ “growing up,†present participle of ²¹»å´Ç±ôŧ²õ³¦±ð°ù±ð ), equivalent to ²¹»å´Ç±ô(ŧ)- ( adult ) + -ŧ²õ³¦- verb suffix + -ent- adjective suffix; -esce, -ent
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An adolescent memory of a trip from upstate New York to Manhattan runs overlong.

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The boy hates his grandfather and, in a fit of anger, uses the time machine to visit his grandfather as an adolescent and murder him.

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Until that point, Skye rues that she had lived like an adult since childhood, the inevitable consequence of entering Hollywood as an adolescent and lacking conventional parental guidance.

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So, just as any other adolescent, she turned to her mother, who proceeded to laugh in her face.

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Two adolescents living in one of the worker’s homes also became sick.

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