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as in young
being in the early stage of life, growth, or development
an adolescent sheepdog, who hasn't quite gotten the hang of keeping the sheep huddled together
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as in childish
having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with children
would hope that the college students had outgrown such adolescent behavior
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as in immature
lacking in adult experience or maturity
took a group of adolescent recruits and turned them into professional warriors
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Recent Examples of adolescent
Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
Without adolescent uptake, tobacco cannot find new users.
—Katharine Silbaugh, STAT, 19 May 2026
Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
An adolescent with severe menstrual pain and vomiting may first present to a pediatrician.
—Sarah Berg, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
Her ex-husband is suing her for custody of their adolescent daughter, with the intention of moving them both from Queens, New York to Boise, Idaho.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
Without adolescent uptake, tobacco cannot find new users.
—Katharine Silbaugh, STAT, 19 May 2026
Noun
He was brought to the center as an adolescent with a broken wing (possibly due to a collision with a car) and can no longer fly properly.
—Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 1 Apr. 2026
An adolescent with severe menstrual pain and vomiting may first present to a pediatrician.
—Sarah Berg, STAT, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adolescent
Adjective
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The Spurs missed more production from De'Aaron Fox, who turned in an unremarkable performance (seven points), leaving San Antonio to lean heavily on its young core.—
Alejandro Avila,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026
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Around the same time, Mark and Jacob Iskander, 11 and 8, were with their mother and younger sibling approaching a crosswalk at Triunfo Canyon Road.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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Giant, a play about Dahl running on Broadway through June, is anything but childish.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
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Garrincha was characterised as childish and moronic in psychological tests commissioned by the Brazilian federation before that tournament in Sweden and was then left out of their first two games.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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On a blind date, his descriptions of magical griffins and burning deserts sound humiliatingly immature.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Beckham is charismatic and generally more thoughtful than the perception created by the impulsive or immature decisions that create headlines.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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In Orange County, the parent of a 14-year-old who allegedly struck and killed an elderly man while riding the same type of e-motorcycle as the Winters juvenile was charged with involuntary manslaughter.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
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Police did not provide further information about the person, who is a juvenile.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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That now seemed an infantile idea.—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Not for infantile name calling.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The team overachieved this season partly because Mazzulla turned an inexperienced supporting cast into a strength.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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Short selling can be an intellectually demanding approach to the market, and many inexperienced traders fall into a trap, lured by overvaluation and hype.—
David Capablanca,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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On May 18, two armed teenagers entered the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing an armed security guard in a gun battle, then fatally shooting two men cornered in the parking lot, police said.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Zaya Wade is one stylish teenager!—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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School kids arrived on field trips and groups lined up for exhibitions, taking the escalators up past the abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s vibrant, 83-foot-tall vertical window.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Bell-to-bell phone bans are among the strategies proposed in a new Surgeon General's advisory warning of the threat excessive screen time can pose to kids.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Adolescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adolescent. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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