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adolescence - 10 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | adolescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | boyhood, minority, spring, youth, girlhood, greenness, juvenility, pubescence, teens, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
| Antonyms: | infancy, adulthood |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
-verbs
come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's wild oats.
-adjectives
adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.
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| Antonyms: | age |
| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, youth, juniority, juvenility, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | puberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young adulthood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, boyhood, potency, spring*, youth, awkward stage, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, preadolescence, pubescence, springtide, springtime*, teenage years, teens, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, bloom, boyhood, childhood, ignorance, immaturity, innocence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days*, awkward age, girlhood, greenness, inexperience, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | maturity, adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boyhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, juniority, schoolboy days, teens, young manhood |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, boyhood, childhood, dotage, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear*, youth, adulthood, elderliness, girlhood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immaturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childhood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, infancy, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | prime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; spring |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, aurora, dawn, daybreak, dew, morning, opening, puberty, start, sunrise, vitality, youth, greenness, juvenility, morn, pubescence, springtime, sunup, tender years, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end |
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | the time before one is of legal age |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, immaturity, youth, pubescence, youthfulness |
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