1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of youth
youthful inexperience
2
: being young and not yet mature
3
: marked by or possessing youth
youthful dancers
4
: having the vitality or freshness of youth : vigorous
my youthful grandparents
5
: having accomplished or undergone little erosion
youthful mountains
youthfulness
noun
Examples of youthful in a Sentence
My grandparents are still very youthful.
it's still a youthful nation with a lot of promise and potential
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Colbert made several jokes about needing a job and even brought a fake resume with a youthful headshot of himself.
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Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Birkin projected just this sort of youthful insouciance.
—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Shane Bieber is the youthful presence at 30.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
France’s youthful enthusiasm for religion has been echoed elsewhere in Europe.
—Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
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Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Birkin projected just this sort of youthful insouciance.
—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Shane Bieber is the youthful presence at 30.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
France’s youthful enthusiasm for religion has been echoed elsewhere in Europe.
—Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for youthful
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“Youthful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/youthful. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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