What are some opposite words for adolescent?
Antonyms for adolescent
ˌæd lˈɛs əntado·les·cent
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term adolescent.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
adolescent
Boyish, childish, and girlish are used in a good sense of those to whom they properly belong, but in a bad sense of those from whom more maturity is to be expected; childish eagerness or glee is pleasing in a child, but unbecoming in a man; puerile in modern use is distinctly contemptuous. Juvenile and youthful are commonly used in a favorable and kindly sense in their application to those still young; youthful in the sense of having the characteristics of youth, hence fresh, vigorous, light-hearted, buoyant, may have a favorable import as applied to any age, as when we say the old man still retains his youthful ardor, vigor, or hopefulness; juvenile in such use would belittle the statement. Young is distinctively applied to those in the early stage of life or not arrived at maturity. Compare NEW.
Compare synonyms for OLD.
Synonyms:
boyish, callow, childish, childlike, girlish, immature, juvenile, puerile, young, youthful
Princeton's WordNet
adolescent, stripling, teenager, teenadjective
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
adolescentadjective
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
"adolescent problems"
adolescent, teen, teenage, teenagedadjective
being of the age 13 through 19
"teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerileadjective
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
"adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
Synonyms:
teen, teenaged, insubstantial, teenage, insipid, jejune, juvenile, puerileadolescentadjective
in the state of development between puberty and maturity
"adolescent boys and girls"
How to use adolescent in a sentence?
As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
If you do n’t have a well-developed frontal cortex, then an individual is more likely to seek out pleasure and not think about the consequences of their actions, that defines the behavior of an adolescent and teen.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#371 | old | |
#1092 | mature | |
#9386 | adolescent |
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