Adolescent

a.	1.	Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. - Cowper.
n.	1.	A youth.

Noun	1.	adolescent - a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity Synonyms: stripling, teenager
Adj.	1.	adolescent - relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"
	2.	adolescent - being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years" Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged
	3.	adolescent - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile
	4.	adolescent - in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"

at half cock, baby, callow, fledgling, green, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hopeful, ill-digested, impubic, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, maturescent, minor, nubile, pubescent, raw, sapling, slip, sprig, stripling, teenager, teener, teenybopper, underripe, unfledged, ungrown, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

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