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sprouts

noun , plural of sprout

Synonyms and Antonyms of sprouts

1 a young person who is between infancy and adulthood

he earned the admiration of the neighborhood sprouts when he showed them how to make a slingshot

Synonyms of sprouts

bairns [chiefly Scottish], bambinos (or bambini), buds, chaps [Southern & Midland], chicks, children, cubs, juveniles, kids, kiddies, kiddos, moppets, sprats (also sprat), squirts, whelps, younglings, youngsters, youths

Words Related to sprouts

adolescents, minors

kindergartners (also kindergarteners), preschoolers, rug rats [slang], schoolboys, schoolchildren, schoolgirls, schoolkids

babes, babies, bantlings, infants, neonates, nestlings, newborn (or newborns), toddlers, tots, tykes (also tikes), weanlings

brats, devils, hellions, imps, jackanapeses, mischiefs, monkeys, rapscallions, rascals, rogues, urchins, whippersnappers

cherubs (or cherubim)

preteens, preteen-agers, subteens, teens, teenagers, teeners, teenyboppers, tweens

lads, nippers, shavers, striplings, tads

bobby-soxers, hoydens, tomboys

Near Antonyms of sprouts

ancients, elders, golden-agers, oldsters, old-timers, seniors, senior citizens

Antonyms of sprouts

adults, grown-ups

2 a branch of a main stem especially of a plant

the raspberry bushes began sending out sprouts in early spring

Synonyms of sprouts

offshoots, outgrowths, shoots

Words Related to sprouts

excrescences, growths

boughs, branchlets, limbs, twigs

sprays, sprigs, spurs

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