Definition of adolescent
: a young person who is developing into an adult : one who is in the state of adolescence
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Examples of adolescent in a Sentence
Their children are now adolescents.
Recent Examples of adolescent from the Web
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Madigan says that only about 40% of parents are regularly talking to their children and adolescents about Internet safety, and that parental supervision of Internet use is low.
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It’s like trying to argue with your pre-adolescent.
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This free event welcomes those for whom such dreams may be nightmares: not only gay and transgender adolescents, but also those who find the typical prom too confining, too conservative, too exclusionary or just too expensive.
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John Mopper is an adolescent therapist with Blueprint Mental Health in Somerville, New Jersey.
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The surge of adolescent Juul users has resulted in an onslaught of media attention and cries from parents and policymakers to address the problem, restricting access to underage users and regulating the nicotine content.
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Basketball eventually took hold both with professional athletes in world-class arenas and with adolescents on inner-city blacktops.
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The number of young Americans and adolescents contemplating or attempting suicide rose sharply between 2008 and 2015, according to an analysis of hospital data published in the journal Pediatrics.
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In addition, the facility will have a geriatric psychiatric unit offering personalized treatment for patients who are 65 years or older and a specialized unit for adolescents, which will treat patients age 12-17 years old.
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Definition of adolescent
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: of, relating to, or being in adolescence
- adolescent growth
- adolescent boys and girls
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: emotionally or intellectually immature
- did not appreciate her husband's adolescent high jinks
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adolescently
adverbExamples of adolescent in a Sentence
an adolescent sheepdog, who hasn't quite gotten the hang of keeping the sheep huddled together
would hope that the college students had outgrown such adolescent behavior
Recent Examples of adolescent from the Web
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Nothing is ever stable in Mr. Huang’s haunting music, which reflects Danny’s adolescent turmoil and the violent undercurrent of military life.
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Study author Sheri Madigan, a child and adolescent psychologist, says that many young clients have described their risky online behaviors to her.
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On top of all this is the pronounced female slant (something obviously planned many years ago but utterly in step with modern currents): The story puts Elastigirl front and center, with adolescent daughter Violet beginning to spread her wings.
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This picture is sweet and engaging, with a real understanding of how adolescent melodrama does and doesn’t change from generation to generation.
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Mary is first seen as an unhappy and ignored adolescent, feverishly scribbling ghoulish tales in her journal atop the grave of her mother, the pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died after giving birth to her.
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But frontman Tom DeLonge - the one with the angsty, adolescent singing voice - had been nurturing an offstage hobby that was decidedly out of the mainstream.
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Ronit and Esti’s adolescent lust for each other seems to have been the crucial impetus for Ronit’s banishment.
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King, then 17, landed in the hospital’s adolescent inpatient ward after overdosing on cough medicine.
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adolescent Synonyms
Near Antonyms
aged, aging (or ageing), ancient, elderly, geriatric, long-lived, old, older, oldish, senescent, senior;
golden, mellow, ripe, ripened;
anile, decrepit, doddering, over-the-hill, senile, spavined, tottery;
Related Words
ephebic, minor, preteen, subadult, teenage (or teenaged), underage;
callow, green, inexperienced, puerile, raw;
babyish, childish, childlike, infantile, infantine, kiddish;
undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unripened;
ADOLESCENT Defined for Kids
Definition of adolescent for Students
: a person who is no longer a child but not yet an adult
Medical Dictionary
medical Definition of adolescent
: one that is in the state of adolescence
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