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Adolescent

adjective

Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent.

Being of the age 13 through 19. Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged. "The teen years"

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity. Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile. "Jejune responses to our problems" , "Their behavior was juvenile" , "Puerile jokes"

In the state of development between puberty and maturity.

noun

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager.

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"Adolescent" Quotes from Famous Books

... to add that old Marie gave us veal and poulet roti. According to the French version of the story of the Flood only two animals emerged from the Ark when the waters receded—one was an immature hen and the other was an adolescent calf. At every meal except breakfast—when they do not give you anything at all—the French give you veal and poulet roti. If at lunch you had the poulet roti first and afterward the veal, why, then at dinner they provide a pleasing variety by bringing ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

... Anne, and he saw no end to his fear. He had been dashed against the suffering he was trying to put away from him and the shock of it had killed in one hour his young adolescent passion. She would be for ever associated with that suffering. He would never see Anne without thinking of his father's death. He would never think of his father's death without seeing Anne. He would see her for ever through an atmosphere of pain ...

— Anne Severn and the Fieldings • May Sinclair

... high school teacher should understand those marvelous changes—physical, mental, and moral—thru which they are passing. How else can one know how to check where checking is needed (and it usually is needed somewhere along the line); to guide where the pathway is obscure (and every adolescent is sure to pass thru valleys of darkness during the high school course); and to inspire where inspiration is lacking (and with some it is lacking a good deal of the time)—in a word, how else than thru a knowledge of the situation can one be the "philosopher, guide, and ...

— On the Firing Line in Education • Adoniram Judson Ladd

... existence, and Thomas said he must have got to like that easy way of living and the relaxing Southern atmosphere. At any rate, when he got back to New York in the fall, he was rather torpid; perhaps he had been growing too fast. From this adolescent drowsiness the lad was awakened by two voices, by two women who sang in New York in 1851,—Jenny Lind and Henrietta Sontag. They were the first great artists he had ever heard, and he never forgot ...

— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

... chunk of the whole. Toward spring I have known squirrels to attack these young cones, but rarely, and I am not sure whether it was because of the pressure of hunger or whether some young squirrel's instinct to sharpen his teeth on them made him a bit precocious. These adolescent cones begin growing again very early in the spring. Youth will have its way, and in this case it seems to seize on the first sap that gets as far as the topmost branch tips, compelling it to the nourishing of the ...

— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard

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