Dictionary Entry
adolescent
adolescent is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
- 2noun
A youth.
- 3noun
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
- 4adjective
in the state of development between puberty and maturity
"adolescent boys and girls"
- 5adjective
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
"adolescent insecurity"
"jejune responses to our problems"
- 6adjective
being of the age 13 through 19
"teenage mothers"
"the teen years"
- 7adjective
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
"adolescent problems"
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