[ US /ˌædəˈɫɛsənt, ˌædoʊˈɫɛsənt/ ]
[ UK /ˌædəlˈɛsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. in the state of development between puberty and maturity
    adolescent boys and girls
  2. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
    adolescent problems
  3. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
    jejune responses to our problems
    puerile jokes
    adolescent insecurity
    their behavior was juvenile
  4. being of the age 13 through 19
    teenage mothers
    the teen years
NOUN
  1. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
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How To Use adolescent In A Sentence

  • I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
  • This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
  • My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
  • The conceptus, like the infant, the child, and the adolescent, is a being who is in the process of unfolding its potential; that is, the potential to grow and develop itself but not to change what it is.
  • Objective To study the event-related potential N400 character of semantic matching of sentence-ending words in childhood and adolescent schizophrenia.
  • The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
  • Life is more uncertain, so the task of launching an adolescent into the world has become more complicated.
  • To answer the 300-odd posers on the questionnaire without then being persuaded to sign up for the religion was an essential rite-of-passage for any spotty adolescent struggling to find their own voice.
  • Type 2 used to be called adult onset diabetes, but we can't call it that anymore because it is onsetting with adolescents and even preteen kids. Campaigning for a Healthier America
  • I find the fetishization of hairlessness strange… I wonder sometimes if it is not the result of the idealization of adolescent body types. The Most Hairiest Man in the World? » Sociological Images
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