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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

... vain that he tried to shake off his assailants; his adolescent strength was as nothing in the arms of steel that bound him. He saw that he was powerless in their hands, and at length ceased making ...

— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien

... girl-scout program was designed mainly with the needs of the young adolescent in mind, and the age was fixed from 10 to 18 years. But the little girls wanted to come in, and so a separate division was made for them called the Brownies or Junior Scouts. Then the older girls and women ...

— Educational Work of the Girl Scouts • Louise Stevens Bryant

... richly decorated. The distinctive feature of the main portal is the tympanum in relief by Gustav Gerlach of New York, which pictures the various stages of education from the mother in the home, through the adolescent period, to maturity, when the student is self-taught. Below is the book of knowledge, the curtains of darkness drawn back that the light may radiate from its open pages. Above the portal's curve is a globe, typifying the world-wide scope ...

— The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition • Louis Christian Mullgardt

... throwing one end across her shoulder. In her uniform she appeared willowy and slim, built like a boy, and with nothing of that graceful awkwardness which almost inevitably betrays such masqueraders. For her limbs were straight at the knees and faultlessly coupled, and there seemed to be the adolescent's smooth lack of development in the scarcely accented hips—only a straightly flowing harmony of proportion—a lad's grace ...

— Special Messenger • Robert W. Chambers

... have any idea, in spite of all the teaching and the advocacy of it, of really deep and scientific breathing. If the system could be made quite general and enforced upon us—especially when young or adolescent—we should not see, as we do now, thousands walking about the streets whose nostrils are too narrow through insufficient breathing, whose lungs are not properly inflated as they inspire; and, as a consequence, who have neither the bloom nor the ...

— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

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