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