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/ˌædəlˈɛsənt/ /ˌædoʊlˈɛsənt/ Listen

Adolescent

adjective

Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent.

Being of the age 13 through 19. Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged. "The teen years"

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity. Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile. "Jejune responses to our problems" , "Their behavior was juvenile" , "Puerile jokes"

In the state of development between puberty and maturity.

noun

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager.

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"Adolescent" Quotes from Famous Books

... far given by scientists are limited to the emotion as it is manifested in the adult. A few writers have referred to it in dealing with the psychology of adolescence, but in this connection refer to it as one of the many ways in which the adolescent spirit shows its intensity, turbulence and capriciousness. I know of no scientist who has given a careful analysis of the emotion as it is seen in the adolescent. It is true that it has been the chosen ...

— A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes • Sanford Bell

... sufficient for any possible case, from a newborn infant to the largest adult. For infants under one year, the proper tube is the 4 mm. by 30 cm.; the child's size, 5 mm. by 30 cm., is used for children aged from one to five years. For children six years or over, the 7 mm. by 40 cm. bronchoscope (the adolescent size) can be used unless the smaller bronchi are to be explored. The adult bronchoscope measures 9 ...

— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... King loved her. Her husband, a most distinguished field-officer, cherished her and believed her to be faithful. I burned this dangerous correspondence, for M. de Vermandois, barely adolescent, was already a father, and ...

— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan

... argued loudly with her colt. She had much ado to pace soberly forward, even under the coercion of whip and spur, while her madcap scion galloped wildly ahead or lagged far in the rear, and made now and then excursions into the woods, out of sight, to gratify some adolescent curiosity, or perhaps, after the fashion of other and human adolescents, to relish the spectacle of the maternal anxiety. Ever and anon the sound of the mare's troubled call rang on the air. Then the ...

— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock

... cry, and meant for no more, by a heart on fire with temptations of which I knew nothing. But then and there my poor adolescent soul found out that the preceptive stuff of which it had built its treasure-house and ...

— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable

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