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underage

[uhn-der-eyj] / ˌʌn dərˈeɪdʒ /
ADJECTIVE
below legal age
Synonyms
STRONGEST
adolescent
STRONG
minor
WEAK
junior juvenile underaged
NOUN
shortage
Synonyms
WEAK
curtailment dearth defalcation defect deficiency deficit failure inadequacy insufficiency lack lapse leanness paucity pinch poverty scantiness scantness scarceness scarcity shortcoming shortfall tightness want weakness

Example Sentences

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“It’s been hard for me because for many years I’ve been so embarrassed that I wasn’t underage when I met him. I was in my early 20s,” she said in the recent interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

TikTok said it used "enhanced technologies" to help detect and remove underage accounts.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg's company removed over 550,000 underage accounts in Australia alone in December ahead of that country's under-16 social media ban.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026

“I asked at least five times if I could let my guardian know what was happening, because I was underage, but they never let me,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

And now Harry came to think of it, surely it wasn’t usual for the Minister of Magic himself to get involved in matters of underage magic?

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Vocabulary lists containing underage

Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: under-

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