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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In 2012 roughly 20% of Swedish adolescents reported at least five instances of self-harming behavior, and the teen suicide rate hit a 25-year high in 2013.
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Getting sober in middle-age is like being an giant elderly adolescent.
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For instance, a study published in the journal Pediatrics last month found that the number of adolescents contemplating or attempting suicide rose sharply between 2008 and 2015.
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Sadness is a normal reaction to sad circumstances, or a free-floating mood typical of adolescents.
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Up to 73 percent of adolescents consume caffeine daily, primarily from coffee and energy drinks.
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But in the 1930s and 1940s, driven by a drying-up of the job market during the Great Depression, record numbers of adolescents started attending high school.
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Parents Talk will be an informal, confidential gathering for adults to discuss the challenges of parenting adolescents.
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Tens of thousands of adolescents in Connecticut still do not have access to effective mental health care, despite the passage of a 2008 federal law requiring health insurers to provide equal benefits for mental health.
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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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Boston Medical Center’s Grayken Center for Addiction is teaming up with the national nonprofit Partnership for Drug-Free Kids to provide free resources and advice to parents whose adolescent or adult children are struggling with addiction.
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Here's a list of resources available to LGBT youth in the Phoenix area: Gender identity Phoenix Children's Hospital's adolescent medicine department provides many services to LGBT youth.
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The Deadpool films are built on raunchier, more adult (or at least more adolescent) humor.
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Born in the Bronx and largely raised by her aunt and uncle in nearby Marble Hill, she was equally inspired by the street poetry of hip-hop and the adolescent angst of punk rock.
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Unfortunately, Cavity Sam's adolescent grandson, Pimple Pete, doesn't hit mass retailers until this fall.
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Musicians still seemed far away and fabulous, but, in keeping with our adolescent quest for identity, music was now about finding ourselves, together.
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The highest rate of increase in children was among adolescent girls.
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In 1960s São Paulo, adolescent son Ciccio stumbles upon an old love letter in one of his father’s books—a note from a German woman who his father met while studying in Berlin in the early 30s.
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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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