adolescent

Meaning

Adj

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.

Noun

A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

Synonyms

teenager

young

juvenile

youth

teen

youthful

teenage

young man

child

🧒

immature

boy

👦

youngster

stripling

teenaged

young person

boyish

young boy

jejune

young girl

pubescent

puerile

girlish

adolescent boy

lad

adolescence

budding youth

baby

👶

bachelor

juvenille

budding

girl

👧

infant

juvenescent

kid

🧒

medium

minor

nascent

offspring

schoolboy

servant

small

teen-age

timber tree

young woman

younker

springtime of life

young male

neanic

half-grown

Translations

adolescente

adolescent

adolescente

adolescente

adolescent

joven

Jugendlicher

έφηβος

Jugendliche

jugendlich

puber

jeune

junger Mann

muchacho

👦

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌædəˈlɛsənt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: adolescent

In summary

First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.