'underage' definitions:

Definition of 'underage'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: minor, nonaged, underage] [ant: major]
adjective
Dependent by virtue of youth

Definition of 'underage'

From: GCIDE
  • Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr. dependere. See Depend, and cf. Dependant.]
  • 1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent. [Narrower terms: {interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial}; {parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking}; subordinate; underage; myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: unfree. [1913 Webster]
  • England, long dependent and degraded, was again a power of the first rank. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.
  • Syn: qualified. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 4. addicted to drugs.
  • Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out. [WordNet 1.5]
  • Dependent covenant or Dependent contract (Law), one not binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
  • Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by changes in another variable, which is called the independent variable. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'underage'

From: GCIDE
  • underage \un"der*age`\ ([u^]n"d[~e]r*[i^]j), a. Shortage or deficiency in amount; shortfall. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

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