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/dʒˈuvənəl/ /dʒˈuvənˌaɪl/ Listen

adjective

Juvenile adj.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation."

Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.

Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.

Synonyms: Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.

noun

Juvenile n. A young person or youth; used sportively or familiarly.

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Etymology of 'Juvenile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Juvenile" Quotes from Famous Books

... a page blank. There follows here an essay in French or notes of a lecture on the study of law, a juvenile performance. Though inserted in the MS. book it is not part of the Journal. It has been printed ...

— Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36 • Sir John Lauder

... the same company," asserted Hyde. "Mr. Moreby-Bannister's company. He was heavy lead—I was juvenile. He knows me well enough. He was with me when I bought that knife in a hardware store ...

— The Middle of Things • J. S. Fletcher

... and arrow we had. I made a cross-bow out of a piece of whalebone, and did very well without him. We had reached that exciting scene where Gessler, the Austrian tyrant, commands Tell to shoot the apple from his son's head. Pepper Whitcomb, who played all the juvenile and women parts, was my son. To guard against mischance, a piece of pasteboard was fastened by a handkerchief over the upper portion of Whitcomb's face, while the arrow to be used was sewed up in a strip ...

— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

... repose. Tired and drowsy, you are just sinking into a doze, when bang! goes the boat against the sides of a lock; ropes scrape, men run and shout; and up fly the heads of all the top-shelfites, who are generally the more juvenile and airy part ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... for recreation and pastime may be roughly divided into two classes: Puzzles that are built up on some interesting or informing little principle; and puzzles that conceal no principle whatever—such as a picture cut at random into little bits to be put together again, or the juvenile imbecility known as the "rebus," or "picture puzzle." The former species may be said to be adapted to the amusement of the sane man or woman; the latter can be confidently ...

— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney

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