'adolescent' definitions:
Definition of 'adolescent'
From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"
adjective
Being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" [syn: adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged]
adjective
Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile]
adjective
In the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"
noun
Synonyms of 'adolescent'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- at half cock,
- baby,
- callow,
- fledgling,
- green,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- half-grown,
- hopeful,
- ill-digested,
- immature,
- impubic,
- infant,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- maturescent,
- minor,
- nubile,
- pubescent,
- raw,
- sapling,
- slip,
- sprig,
- stripling,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- underripe,
- unfledged,
- ungrown,
- unmellowed,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth