'Juvenile' definitions:
Definition of 'juvenile'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile fashions"
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]
noun
Definition of 'Juvenile'
From: GCIDE
- Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\ (?; 277), a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juv['e]nile, juv['e]nil. See Young.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." --Glanvill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
- 3. Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum. [PJC]
- Syn: Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Juvenile'
From: GCIDE
- Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\, n. A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly. --C. Bront['e]. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'juvenile'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actor,
- actress,
- adolescent,
- antagonist,
- at half cock,
- baby,
- babyish,
- bad guy,
- barnstormer,
- best seller,
- book,
- bound book,
- boy,
- callow,
- character,
- character actor,
- character man,
- character woman,
- chickabiddy,
- child actor,
- childish,
- classic,
- coloring book,
- definitive work,
- diseur,
- diseuse,
- dramatizer,
- feeder,
- fledgling,
- florescent,
- flowering,
- foil,
- folio,
- girl,
- great work,
- green,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- half-grown,
- hardback,
- heavy,
- histrio,
- histrion,
- hopeful,
- ill-digested,
- immature,
- impubic,
- infant,
- infantile,
- ingenue,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenescent,
- juvenile book,
- kid,
- limp-cover book,
- magnum opus,
- matinee idol,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- minor,
- monologist,
- moppet,
- mummer,
- nipper,
- nonbook,
- notebook,
- novel,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- opusculum,
- pantomime,
- pantomimist,
- paperback,
- picture book,
- playactor,
- playbook,
- player,
- pocket book,
- prayer book,
- production,
- protean actor,
- psalmbook,
- psalter,
- pubescent,
- publication,
- puerile,
- puss,
- raw,
- reciter,
- Roscius,
- sapling,
- serial,
- sketchbook,
- slip,
- soft-cover,
- songbook,
- soubrette,
- sprig,
- stage performer,
- stage player,
- standard work,
- stooge,
- storybook,
- straight man,
- stripling,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- teenaged,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- theatrical,
- thespian,
- title,
- tome,
- trade book,
- trouper,
- underripe,
- unfledged,
- ungrown,
- unmellowed,
- unripe,
- unseasoned,
- unsophisticated,
- utility man,
- villain,
- volume,
- work,
- writing,
- young,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth,
- youthful,
- youthlike,
- youthy