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.
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As recently as 10 or 20 years ago, adolescents might’ve shared a common awareness of whatever was on MTV, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, or the Disney Channel.
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For Troy, living full-time with his son meant starting over: learning to talk to an adolescent about failing grades and falling in love; setting rules about cellphone use and computer time.
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There have been so many coming-of-age tales over the years about the connection between an adolescent and an animal—think of Kes, or Old Yeller, or Au Hasard Balthazar.
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The information also teaches individuals just how to help an adolescent in crisis.
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In DuPage County last year, the coroner's figures show 82 deaths were the result of suicide and 10 of those people were teens and adolescents.
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The role of flavors has become increasingly scrutinized as adolescents and teenagers have adopted e-cigs with fruity variations.
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Thrive matches volunteer mentors to adolescents that are in the process of 'aging out' of the foster care system into adulthood, and are in need of positive, supportive relationships with adults in their communities.
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At least one of every five adolescents experiences depression, and the illness likely is a factor in a recent spike of youth suicides in Hamilton County and nationwide.
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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
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Verlander wore a post-adolescent mustache back then, Reebok cleats, a tan glove and had the mound presence of a veteran at just 23 years old.
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Murphy Vance of Brunswick is pursuing a degree in adolescent/young adult/integrated mathematics education and a degree in mathematics.
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Much of my life has been like an adolescent dream of an adult life.
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Even in practice, Kyrgios’s explosive forehand is like a heavyweight boxer’s uppercut, and De Minaur’s still-adolescent strokes made for a good punching bag.
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Woolly mammoths are thought to have had family structures similar to modern elephants, where herds consist of females and young elephants, whereas adolescent and adult males disperse from the herd and roam in smaller bachelor groups or alone.
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The video centers on an adolescent boy attempting to confront and resolve the tenuous relationship with his father.
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Netflix’s new animated comedy Big Mouth is primarily about two adolescent boys, but some of its funniest and most refreshing moments—for female viewers, at least—actually come courtesy of its female characters.
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John Hughes’s canon of teenage angst and dystopia barely scratches the surface of adolescent issues that have cropped up in the decades since.
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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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