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

1. adjective. Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.
2. noun. A youth.
3. noun. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

   Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager

4. adjective. in the state of development between puberty and maturity

   "adolescent boys and girls"

5. adjective. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

   "adolescent insecurity"

   "jejune responses to our problems"

   Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile

6. adjective. being of the age 13 through 19

   "teenage mothers"

   "the teen years"

   Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged

7. adjective. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent

   "adolescent problems"

Synonyms

stripling, teen, teenager, jejune, juvenile, puerile, teenage, teenaged

Common word forms

adolescents, adolescently

Words from these letters

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