Synonyms for Adolescent
ˌæd lˈɛs əntado·les·cent

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1. 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

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1. adolescent, stripling, teenager, teenadjective

   a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

   Synonyms:
   adolescent, teen, stripling, teenager

   Antonyms:
   mature, old

2. adolescentadjective

   relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent

   "adolescent problems"

   Synonyms:
   jejune, teenage, juvenile, teenaged, teen, puerile

   Antonyms:
   mature, old

3. adolescent, teen, teenage, teenagedadjective

   being of the age 13 through 19

   "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"

   Synonyms:
   adolescent, jejune, teenage, juvenile, teenaged, teen, puerile

   Antonyms:
   mature, old

4. 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, adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile

   Antonyms:
   old, mature

5. adolescentadjective

   in the state of development between puberty and maturity

   "adolescent boys and girls"

   Synonyms:
   jejune, teenage, juvenile, teenaged, teen, puerile

   Antonyms:
   old, mature

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adolescentadjective

   Synonyms:
   youthful, juvenile, young

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1. List of paraphrases for "adolescent":

   adolescents, teenage, teenager, teenagers, teen, adolescence, teens, adolescente, adolescentes, youth, yp, teenaged, juvenile, youngsters, juveniles

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1. Shane Dormady:

   I think younger people are on average consuming less healthy food – fast food, processed snacks, processed sugars – and I think that those foods also contain higher concentrations of carcinogens and mutagens, in addition to the fact that they are very fattening, it’s well-publicized that child, adolescent, young adult obesity is rampant, if not epidemic, in our country.

2. Daniel Siegel:

   An adolescent will reason in this way that says, ‘Well, if I drive a car a 100 mph on this surface street there's probably a 40 percent chance I'll get hurt, but a 60 percent chance I'll just have fun.’ So the answer is, ‘It's most likely that I'll just have fun, so I'm gonna do it.’ And they don't care about the information they know.

3. Mary Day Winn:

   Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu.

4. Saju Mathew:

   At this point, I am not likely to personally recommend that my adolescent population get a booster shot, however, I do have some adolescents with underlying medical conditions.

5. M. Cartmill:

   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.