juvenileadjective
uk/ˈdʒuː.vən.aɪl/us/ˈdʒuː.və.nəl/C1 formal or specialized law relating to a young person who is not yet old enough to be considered an adult:
juvenile crime/offenders
disapproving silly and typical of a child:
juvenile behaviour
a juvenile sense of humour
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Describing people who are young
- adolescent
- at your mother's knee idiom
- be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
- flower
- fresh-faced
- in the flower of sb's youth idiom
- little
- mother
- prepubescent
- pubescent
- slip
- small
- teen
- teenager
- time
- underage
- yoof
- young
- youthful
- yute
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Physically and mentally mature & immature
juvenilenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʒuː.vən.aɪl/us/ˈdʒuː.və.nəl/a young person
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Young people
- adolescence
- adolescent
- boyhood
- delinquent
- emo
- girlhood
- grow
- mall rat
- minor
- punk
- skinhead
- Teddy boy
- teen
- teens
- tweenager
- yoof
- young blood
- young lady/man idiom
- youngster
- yute
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