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