Related Searches
Nearby Words
teen
[teen] 
| Main Entry: |
teen
[teen]
|
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teenager |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, juvenile, minor, stripling, sweet sixteen, teenybopper, youngster, youth |
| Main Entry: | adolescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preadult or immature |
| Synonyms: | boyish, girlish, growing, juvenile, pubescent, puerile, teen, teenage, young, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, infant |
| Main Entry: | adolescent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | juvenile, minor, stripling, sweet sixteen, teen, teenager, teenybopper, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult, infant |
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, anklebiter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, shaver, small fry, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teen, teenager, teenybopper, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin, whippersnapper, young one, youngster, youth |
| Antonyms: | adult |
| Main Entry: | childhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being young |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, babyhood, cradle, immaturity, infancy, juniority, juvenility, minority, nonage, nursery, puberty, pupilage, schooldays, teens, tender age, youth |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
| Main Entry: | puberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | young adulthood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward stage, boyhood, girlhood, greenness, high-school years, juvenescence, juvenility, potency, preadolescence, pubescence, spring*, springtide, springtime, teenage years, teens, youth, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | teenager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adolescent |
| Synonyms: | juvenile, minor, stripling, sweet sixteen, teen, teenybopper, youngster, youth |
| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | adulthood, maturity |
| Main Entry: | boyhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, juniority, schoolboy days, teens, young manhood |
| Antonyms: | adulthood |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
