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Youthful   /jˈuθfəl/   Listen
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Youthful  adj.  
1.
Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year."
2.
Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." "Youthful thoughts."
3.
Fresh; vigorous, as in youth. "After millions of millions of ages... still youthful and flourishing."
Synonyms: Puerile; juvenile. Youthful, Puerile, Juvenile. Puerile is always used in a bad sense, or at least in the sense of what is suitable to a boy only; as, puerile objections, puerile amusements, etc. Juvenile is sometimes taken in a bad sense, as when speaking of youth in contrast with manhood; as, juvenile tricks; a juvenile performance. Youthful is commonly employed in a good sense; as, youthful aspirations; or at least by way of extenuating; as, youthful indiscretions. "Some men, imagining themselves possessed with a divine fury, often fall into toys and trifles, which are only puerilities." "Raw, juvenile writers imagine that, by pouring forth figures often, they render their compositions warm and animated."






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"Youthful" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the panels, out of which a tall footman was handing a lady attired in deep but elegant mourning, and closely veiled. I instantly withdrew to my private room, and desired that the lady should be immediately admitted. Greatly was my surprise increased when the graceful and still youthful visitor withdrew her veil, and disclosed the features of the Countess of Seyton, upon whose mild, luminous beauty, as rendered by the engraving from Sir Thomas Lawrence's picture, I had so frequently gazed ...
— The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney • Samuel Warren

... The youthful poet, pen in hand, All by the side of blotted stand, In rev'rie deep, which none may break, Sits rubbing of his beardless cheek; And well his inspiration knows, E'en by the dewy drops ...
— Poems, &c. (1790) • Joanna Baillie

... all things with great we may compare, Such are the bees, and such their busy care: Studious of honey, each in his degree, The youthful swain, the grave, experienced bee; That in the field; this in affairs of state, Employed at home, abides within the gate, To fortify the combs, to build the wall, To prop the ruins, lest the fabric fall: But late at night, with weary ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... surrounded the house, in which only a few of the dogs were taken captive, the others were immediately slaughtered. A boy hardly fifteen years old was dragged out of a wet ditch with a gun in his hand. Before being brought to me, this youthful swine had been thrashed from head to foot. Besides the men, two women ...
— What Germany Thinks - The War as Germans see it • Thomas F. A. Smith

... and new Fletchers were ready to sacrifice themselves, if need were, for the Bullions of the exchange. Who believes in the efficacy of "lessons"? What public execution ever deterred the murderer from his design? What spectacle of drunkenness ever restrained the youthful debauchee? What accession, however notable, to the ranks of "the unfortunate" ever made the fascinated woman pause in ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various


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