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adolescent definition

ado·les·cent (ad′ə les′ənt)

adjective

  1. developing from childhood to maturity; growing up
  2. of or characteristic of adolescence; youthful, exuberant, immature, unsettled, etc.

Etymology: Fr < L adolescens, prp. of adolescere, to come to maturity, be kindled, burn < *adalescere < ad-, to + alescere, to increase, grow up < alere, to feed, sustain; akin to OE ald (see old), Goth alan, to grow

noun

a boy or a girl from puberty to adulthood; teenage person

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adolescent Synonyms

adolescent

modif.

teenage, pubescent, juvenile, youthful, young, growing, underage, half-grown, in one's teens, immature, unsettled, callow, puerile, sophomoric, sweet sixteen*; see also young 1, 2. See syn. study atyoung.


adolescent

n.

teenager, youngster, minor; see youth 3.


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adolescent Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • age: Brent Center for Young People Service for adolescents aged 14 to 21 who self-harm.

Adjective modifier

  • female: An examination of a sociocultural model of disordered eating among male and female adolescents.

Modifies a noun

  • psychiatrist: There is a mental health in-reach team in place lead by a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Noun used with modifier

  • specialist: We provide a range of treatment packages, and a specialist adolescent service as we are licensed to accept females from 14 years.

Possessives

  • perception: Adolescents ' perceptions of their fathers ' involvement: Significance to school attitudes.

Preposition: with

  • autism: Face processing in high-functioning adolescents with autism: Evidence for weak central coherence?
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adolescent quotes

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, byonemeans oranother, triestoopenit. the chest is opened: inside, there is nothing.

-Mishima,Yukio pseudonym of  Hiraoka Kimitake

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