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adolescent

5 definitions • 4 examples
1
a young person who is developing into an adult
2
being or relating to an adolescent:

Examples:

an adolescent boy
3
used to describe an adult or an adult's behaviour that is silly and like a child's:

Examples:

adolescent humour/behaviour
4
between the ages of a child and an adult:

Examples:

The two adolescent boys made their mother very tired.
5
If you describe an adult as adolescent, you mean that the person is behaving in a silly way.

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