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adolescent Definition

ado·les·cent (ad′ə lesənt)

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

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 Synonyms

adolescent

n.

adolescent Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • age: Brent Center for Young People Service for adolescents aged 14 to 21 who self-harm.
  • affect: Social services have an increased awareness of issues affecting adolescents.

Adjective modifier

  • female: An examination of a sociocultural model of disordered eating among male and female adolescents.
  • young: Middle school students ' reading behavior is a timely issue given the recent interest in the education of young adolescents.
  • ethnic: Ethnic minority adolescents and the use of community mental health services.
  • old: Older adolescents are usually responsible enough to manage alone for limited periods of time.
  • most: Nevertheless, most adolescents will not go on to be drug users.
  • early: Gender organization of schooling and television viewing among early adolescents: a test of two alternative hypotheses.

Modifies a noun

  • psychiatrist: There is a mental health in-reach team in place lead by a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist.
  • psychiatry: He was an international figure in the world of pediatric and adolescent psychiatry.
  • psychotherapist: This is followed by the opinions of a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and a senior CAMHS nurse.
  • angst: Even allowing for adolescent angst, a book in which the hero's children hang themselves does not suggest a frivolous nature.
  • gynecology: Chapter 5: Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology - Pregnancy Q 5. 16 Are there any particular worries about a teenager having a pregnancy?
  • psychotherapy: Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 1, 63-68.

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?
  • diabetes: Factors of interest The effects of educational and psychosocial interventions for adolescents with diabetes.
  • disorder: Virtual environments for social skills training: comments from two adolescents with autistic spectrum disorder.
  • problem: Improved services for children and adolescents with mental health problems.

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