young

[yuhng] / yʌŋ /

ADJECTIVE

immature

Synonyms

STRONGEST

budding inexperienced new youthful

STRONG

adolescent blooming blossoming crude developing fledgling green growing infant inferior junior juvenile little modern newborn punk raw recent tender tenderfoot

WEAK

boyish boylike burgeoning callow childish childlike early fresh girlish girllike half-grown ignorant newish not aged pubescent puerile undeveloped undisciplined unfinished unfledged unlearned unpracticed unripe unseasoned untried unversed vernal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

experienced old

STRONG

adult healthy mature older sophisticated

NOUN

animate beings that are not mature

Synonyms

STRONGEST

baby family

STRONG

babies brood infants issue litter offspring progeny

WEAK

little ones

Antonyms

STRONG

parent

Example Sentences

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"It was just after the London riots so the prison team was full of good young players and they won the match."

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

She describes one of her missions in life as getting young people involved with classical music.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

A third of its population had left to find work on the coast, leaving behind the elderly and the young.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Many elderly women and young girls also visit the shrine.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The young man—one of our workers—had barely been assigned a chair when again the bell sounded.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom