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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Sometimes dismissed as the Nerd Prom or the Geek Super Bowl, the 48th annual Con — the official name is Comic-Con International: San Diego — is more than a sleep-away summer camp for overgrown adolescents.
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Productions are specifically adapted for pre-adolescent and adolescent voices.
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So Spider-Man: Homecoming is our third reboot, and now it’s Tom Holland’s turn (after his brief appearance in Captain America: Civil War) to re-establish Parker as adolescent.
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The average adult checks his or her smartphone 35 times a day, a figure that almost certainly is surpassed by most adolescents.
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But so far, the American nation had proven stunningly incapable of fending for itself, like a rebellious adolescent who takes leave of his family without a penny to his name.
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Her kids are a preteen and an adolescent — a boy and a girl.
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But as an adolescent, Aftab learns of a place in his Delhi neighborhood called the Khwabgah, or House of Dreams.
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The children, from infants to adolescents, didn’t seem to care that the second Christmas took place in early summer.
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Origin and Etymology of adolescent
French, from Latin adolescent-, adolescens, present participle of adolescere to grow up — more at adult
adolescent
Definition of adolescent
1 : of, relating to, or being in adolescence adolescent growth adolescent boys and girls
2 : emotionally or intellectually immature did not appreciate her husband's adolescent high jinks
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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Ben Sasse preemptively described his book on our adolescent culture as not an old man yelling at the kids on his lawn.
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This week, in conjunction with Featherproof Books, Manis's Moniker Records label publishes Timmis's From the Inside, a short autobiographical work that focuses on his adolescent experiences at a Kansas mental health facility.
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As many as 68 adolescent girls in five cottages are served on Maryhurst’s main campus, which has a total of 70,000 square feet under roof.
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In 2015, their wonderful Inside Out not only featured Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, and Mindy Kaling among its stars, but literally took place inside the mind of an adolescent girl.
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The adolescent brain is primed both to take in the world around it more than ever before, and to process that information with more self-awareness than ever before.
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When Travis is beset by horrifying nightmares and is unsettled by certain adolescent stirrings in the presence of Will’s pretty wife, the truce frays and paranoia kicks back into gear.
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A summer job meant pocket money, adolescent development and life skills, like scooping ice cream, sitting in a lifeguard chair for six hours and ripping movie tickets.
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Bjerknes’ alleged crimes came to the attention of law enforcement in fall 2016 when the Beltrami County sheriff’s office started receiving complaints from parents of adolescent girls who attended the middle school, according to a criminal complaint.
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Origin and Etymology of adolescent
see 1adolescent
ADOLESCENT Defined for Kids
adolescent
playDefinition 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
adolescent
Medical Definition of adolescent
: of, relating to, or being in adolescence
adolescently
adverbLearn More about adolescent
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