a. | 1. | Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. |
n. | 1. | A youth. |
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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" | |
3. | adolescent - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" | |
4. | adolescent - in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls" |