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adolescent

adjective as in preadult or immature

noun as in person in puberty, preadulthood

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Example Sentences

But for adolescent inmates, says U. S. Attorney Preet Bharara, “Rikers Island is broken.”

What is new, however, is the role that technology is playing in adolescent sexuality.

An investment in creating a non-violent world for adolescent girls will have many positive impacts.

Adolescent girls are one of the most vulnerable populations in the world.

A rite of passage solely reserved for adolescent girls, the painful custom is believed to be as old as the local creation myth.

And could it not be extended from its present limited range until it reached practically the whole adolescent community?

It has come to the notice of the Committee that many parents are conniving at the practice of having liquor at adolescent parties.

I know of nothing better for the adolescent child than to teach him how properly to manicure his own nails.

Despite all of his reading, Dorothy's marriage made her, in his brown adolescent eyes, wholly intangible.

Such was my mad, adolescent prayer, while the stars seemed to answer in sympathetic silence.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to adolescent, such as: immature, pre-adult, callow, growing, juvenile, and pubescent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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