YOUNGLINGS Synonyms: 82 Similar and Opposite Words

younglings

noun

plural of youngling

as in kids

a young person who is between infancy and adulthood she quit babysitting when she got tired of wrangling younglings who weren't even her own

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Recent Examples of younglings The fiddly build and lack of play features make this a Lego set that's better suited for collectors rather than younglings. —

Rich Owen, Space.com, 29 Nov. 2025 But even younglings with a limited attention span, who can't sit still for an entire feature film, will forever have a connection to the screen icon who died Tuesday at the age of 89. —

Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025

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Noun

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
The solution may involve options that aren’t their first choice, like a day or two in daycare per week, but are still healthy for the kids.

— R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 4 June 2026