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adjective
1.
growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
2.
having the characteristics of adolescence or of an adolescent.
noun
3.
an adolescent person.
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Adolescents
is always a great word to know.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Origin:
1475–85; < Latin adolēscent- (stem of adolēscēns growing up, present participle of adolēscere), equivalent to adol(ē)- (see adult) + -ēsc- -esce + -ent- -ent
1475–85; < Latin adolēscent- (stem of adolēscēns growing up, present participle of adolēscere), equivalent to adol(ē)- (see adult) + -ēsc- -esce + -ent- -ent
Related forms
ad·o·les·cent·ly, adverb
post·ad·o·les·cent, adjective, noun
sub·ad·o·les·cent, adjective, noun
Synonyms
1. immature, young. 3. youth, teenager, minor.
1. immature, young. 3. youth, teenager, minor.
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Example Sentences
- Rickets is a bone disease, which retains only children and adolescents.
- The school takes particular pride in its focus on how adolescents think and develop.
- Political theorists dismiss her as a shallow thinker whose appeal is restricted to adolescents.
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