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/dʒˈuvənəl/ /dʒˈuvənˌaɪl/ Listen

adjective

Juvenile adj.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation."

Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.

Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.

Synonyms: Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.

noun

Juvenile n. A young person or youth; used sportively or familiarly.

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Etymology of 'Juvenile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Juvenile" Quotes from Famous Books

... wore too much of an educational aspect for the children not to tire of it soon, and a little later in the afternoon they were all marched back to Lumsdon, Jude returning to his work. He watched the juvenile flock in their clean frocks and pinafores, filing down the street towards the country beside Phillotson and Sue, and a sad, dissatisfied sense of being out of the scheme of the latters' lives had possession of ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... at this, and we all trooped into the house again. The little girl had crowed and clapped her hands during our struggle, all unconscious of the dreadful event of which it was a juvenile travesty. We two boys admired her as she was borne in on the negro's shoulder, ...

— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

... have had a nice time to-night dancing with the girls from Gridley if their kid friends hadn't stepped in and spoiled it all in their juvenile way," ...

— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock

... juvenile books contains works of standard quality, on a variety of subjects—history, biography, fiction, science, and poetry—carefully chosen to meet the needs and interests of both boys ...

— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott

... the correct (though uninteresting) result, 0 0! This will show you that it is hopeless to try to coax any one of these 3 unknowns to reveal its separate value. The other competitor, who is wrong throughout, is either J. M. C. or T. M. C.: but, whether he be a Juvenile Mis-Calculator or a True Mathematician Confused, he makes the answers 7d. and 1s. 5d. He assumes, with Too Much Confidence, that biscuits were 1/2d. each, and that Clara paid for 8, though ...

— A Tangled Tale • Lewis Carroll

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