Adolescent - Definition
adolescent
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]