juvenile

Meaning

Adj

1. Young; not fully developed.
2. Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.

Noun

1. A prepubescent child.
2. A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
3. A person younger than the age of full criminal responsibility, such that the person either cannot be held criminally liable or is subject to less severe forms of punishment.
4. A publication for young adult readers.
5. An actor playing a child's role.
6. A sexually immature animal.
7. A two-year-old racehorse.

Synonyms

adolescent

young

youthful

youth

immature

teenager

childish

teenage

youngster

puerile

boyish

jejune

children

juvenile person

green

junior

infant

girlish

nascent

babyish

underage

🔞

virgin

young person

younker

baby bird

boys and girls

young girl

neoformative

nonaged

Neogenic

bairnly

young shaver

boy

👦

budding

callow

chitty

fresh

hobbledehoy

infantile

infantine

kid

🧒

kiddish

maidenly

minor

modern

neonatal

new

🆕

newborn

novel

pubescent

Translations

juvénile

juvenil

adolescent

giovanile

jugendlich

minorenne

juvenil

adolescente

adolescente

adolescent

joven

jeune

νεανικός

Jugendlicher

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒuːvənaɪl/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iuvenīlis (“youthful; juvenile”), from iuvenis (“young; a youth”) + -īlis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a relationship or a pertaining to). Iuvenis is ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”), from *h₂óyu (“long life; lifetime”) (from *h₂ey- (“age; life”)) + *h₁én (“in”).