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Adolescent

adjective

Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent.

Being of the age 13 through 19. Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged. "The teen years"

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity. Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile. "Jejune responses to our problems" , "Their behavior was juvenile" , "Puerile jokes"

In the state of development between puberty and maturity.

noun

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager.

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"Adolescent" Quotes from Famous Books

... extinction of the proletariat. Children cannot be educated unless they are fed and freed from industrial labour. The feeding and educating of neglected children is tantamount to feeding and educating the whole adolescent proletariat, and would mean the extinction of ...

— Selected Essays • Karl Marx

... of this general moral law implies continence on the part of the male adolescent until marriage. Continence is positive restraint under all circumstances. Strict continence is neither injurious to health, nor does it produce impotence. While self-denial is difficult, since the promptings of nature often seem imperious, it ...

— Sex - Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English • Henry Stanton

... possible romantic experiences. Writers had classified feminine beauty and codified the different situations which might arise in the course of a romance. A woman, for example, would be catalogued according as she was 'one's own, another's or anyone's' and whether she was young, adolescent or adult. Beauties with adult physiques were divided into unmarried and married, while cutting across such divisions was yet another based on the particular circumstances in which a woman might find herself. Such circumstances were normally eight in number—when ...

— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer

... alters from the days when the little ducts begin to feed the bones with lime up to the days when the bones are brittle and the muscles wither away, so does the soul alter. The infant's soul is different from the boy's, the boy's from the adolescent man's, the young man's from the middle-aged man's, and so on to the end. Now, since every change in the body, no matter how infinitesimally small, is followed by a corresponding change in the soul, then it is plain ...

— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman

... shanty the man wrote unceasingly. Many fragments he covered and deposited, an irregular heap, at his right hand. At his left an adolescent mound of cigarette stumps grew steadily larger. A cloud of tobacco smoke over his head, driven here and there by vagrant currents of air, gathered denser ...

— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge

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