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单词 adolescent
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adolescentnoun [ C ]

uk/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/us/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/

C2 a young person who is developing into an adult

Examples

  • He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent who's gone to the wrong party.
  • I'm looking after six adolescents for a week.
  • She doesn't understand the emotional problems of adolescents.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Young people

  • adolescence
  • boyhood
  • delinquent
  • emo
  • girlhood
  • grow
  • grow up
  • mall rat
  • minor
  • punk
  • skinhead
  • Teddy boy
  • teen
  • teens
  • tweenager
  • yoof
  • young blood
  • young lady/man idiom
  • youngster
  • yute

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adolescentadjective

uk/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/us/ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/

being or relating to an adolescent:

an adolescent boy
adolescent concerns/traumas/problems

used to describe an adult or an adult's behaviour that is silly and like a child's:

adolescent humour/behaviour

More examples

  • He eventually outgrew his adolescent interest in war and guns.
  • The council was hoping to turn a children's home into a residence for adolescent girls.
  • My daughter became quite difficult to deal with during her adolescent years.
  • A lot of adolescent girls suffer from low self-esteem.
  • It's sad to see a grown man acting in such an adolescent way.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Describing people who are young

  • at your mother's knee idiom
  • be knee-high to a grasshopper idiom
  • flower
  • fresh-faced
  • in the flower of sb's youth idiom
  • juvenile
  • little
  • mother
  • prepubescent
  • pubescent
  • slip
  • small
  • teen
  • teenager
  • time
  • underage
  • yoof
  • young
  • youthful
  • yute

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