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Antonyms for adolescent
ˌæd lˈɛs əntado·les·cent

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. adolescent, stripling, teenager, teenadjective

    a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

    Antonyms:
    mature, old

    Synonyms:
    teen, stripling, teenager

  2. adolescentadjective

    relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent

    "adolescent problems"

    Antonyms:
    mature, old

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

  3. adolescent, teen, teenage, teenagedadjective

    being of the age 13 through 19

    "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"

    Antonyms:
    mature, old

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

  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"

    Antonyms:
    old, mature

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

  5. adolescentadjective

    in the state of development between puberty and maturity

    "adolescent boys and girls"

    Antonyms:
    old, mature

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

How to use adolescent in a sentence?

  1. Scott Paul Beierle:

    I don't think a female can ever understand the societal pressure that's put on an adolescent male to unburden himself of this stigma that society's put on him, this virginity burden.

  2. David Diamond:

    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.

  3. Brian Sandoval:

    Conversion therapy has been disavowed by medical experts and is considered a non-effective method of treatment that can cause harm to an adolescent, this law will help protect some of our state's most vulnerable youth.

  4. George Steiner:

    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.

  5. Jane Fonda:

    For the bulk of my life, I would say up until my seventies, I spent my life like a double image, like a double exposure, as an adolescent, in order to fit in, I made sure no one especially boys or men could see who I really was ; that I could get really angry, that I could not be pretty, that I could be tough. I went through life not whole.

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