adolescent
Speech parts
1. adolescent - Noun
2. adolescent - Adjective
3. adolescent - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
A youth.
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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face.
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.