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| Main Entry: | adolescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preadult or immature |
| Synonyms: | boyish, girlish, growing, juvenile, puerile, teenage, young, youthful, pubescent, teen |
| Antonyms: | adult, infant |
| Main Entry: | adolescent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | juvenile, minor, stripling, teenager, youngster, youth, sweet sixteen, teen, teenybopper |
| Antonyms: | adult, infant |
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| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babe, baby, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, minor, mite, moppet, newborn, nipper, offspring, progeny, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, teenager, toddler, tyke, urchin*, youngster, youth, anklebiter, bairn, bambino, dickens, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, neonate, nestling, nursling, preteen, pubescent, shaver, small fry, tadpole, teen, teenybopper, tot, whippersnapper, young one |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff*, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful, infantine |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | girl |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young female person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, damsel, daughter, lady, teenager, Ms, lassie, mademoiselle, schoolgirl, she, young lady, young woman |
| Antonyms: | boy |
| Main Entry: | immature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childish, crude, green*, imperfect, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kid, premature, puerile, raw, sophomoric, tender*, tenderfoot*, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, unripe, unseasonable, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untimely, youthful, half-grown, infantine, kidstuff, undergrown, unfledged, wet behind ears |
| Antonyms: | adult, developed, experienced, grown, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childish |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babyish, blooming, boyish, budding, callow, childlike, formative, fresh, girlish, green, growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior, kid stuff*, naive, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unripe, unsophisticated, vernal, young, youthful, beardless, developing, milk-fed, pubescent, unfledged, unweaned, younger |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, boy, child, girl, infant, kid*, minor, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | minor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person under legal age of maturity |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, boy, child, girl, infant, junior, juvenile, lad, teenager, youngster, youth, little one, schoolboy, schoolgirl, underage |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | young |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, blooming, blossoming, boyish, budding, callow, childish, childlike, crude, early, fledgling, fresh, girlish, green*, growing, ignorant, inexperienced, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, new, newborn, puerile, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot*, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unlearned, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal, youthful, boylike, burgeoning, developing, girllike, half-grown, newish, not aged, pubescent, unfledged, unpracticed |
| Antonyms: | mature, old, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | youthful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, immature |
| Synonyms: | active, adolescent, boyish, budding, buoyant, callow, childish, childlike, enthusiastic, fresh, girlish, green*, inexperienced, infant, juvenile, keen, puerile, tender, vernal, vigorous, young, full of life, pubescent, underage |
| Antonyms: | experienced, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boyish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | youthful |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, childish, immature, innocent, juvenile, puerile, young, boylike |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature |
| Main Entry: | young adult |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teenager |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, junior, juvenile, minor, youngster, pubescent, teenybopper, young person |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adolescent, adult, adultoid, beardless, brephic, budding, callow, ephebic, full, grown up, hebrephrenic, impuberal, in one's prime, in one's teens, junior, juvenile, manly, marriageable, matronly, mature, middle, neanic, neotelnic, neotenic, nubile, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, pedomorphic, prepubescent, pubescent, sappy, seasoned, underage, virile, viripotent, womanly, yeanling, young, youngster, youthful
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