Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, immature |
| Synonyms: | active, adolescent, boyish, budding, buoyant, callow, childish, childlike, enthusiastic, fresh, full of life, girlish, green*, inexperienced, infant, juvenile, keen, pubescent, puerile, tender, underage, vernal, vigorous, young |
| Notes: | to be young is to be immature or not old; to be youthful is having the attractive qualities of a young person |
| Antonyms: | experienced, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | baby |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | miniature |
| Synonyms: | babyish, diminutive, dwarf, little, midget, mini, minute, petite, small, tiny, wee, youthful |
| Antonyms: | big, giant, large |
| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, infantine, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, just produced |
| Synonyms: | beginning, brand-new, comer, contemporary, crisp, crude, current, different, gleaming, glistening, green*, hot off the press, hot*, immature, just out, late, latest, mint, modern, modernistic, natural, neoteric, newborn, newfangled, novel, now, original, radical, raw, recent, sparkling, state-of-the-art, the latest, this season's, unconventional, unprocessed, unseasoned, untouched, unusual, up-to-date, virginal, what's happening, young, youthful |
| Antonyms: | old, stale, tired, used |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fresh |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | artless, callow, green*, natural, new, raw, tenderfooted, uncultivated, unpracticed, unskilled, untrained, untried, unversed, young, youthful |
| Antonyms: | experienced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, new, blooming |
| Synonyms: | bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half-formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting, supple, tender, undecayed, undried, unfledged, ungrown, unripe, unseasoned, verdant, verduous, youthful |
| Antonyms: | old, withered |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | callow, credulous, fresh, gullible, ignorant, immature, inexpert, ingenuous, innocent, naive, new, raw, tenderfoot, unconversant, unpolished, unpracticed, unseasoned, unskillful, unsophisticated, untrained, unversed, wet behind the ears, young, youthful |
| Antonyms: | experienced, expert, skilled |
| Main Entry: | immature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childish, crude, green*, half-grown, imperfect, infantile, infantine, jejune, juvenile, kid, kidstuff, premature, puerile, raw, sophomoric, tender*, tenderfoot, underdeveloped, undergrown, undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unripe, unseasonable, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untimely, wet behind ears, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, developed, experienced, grown, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
| Synonyms: | baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, dawning, developing, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, infantine, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, nascent, newborn, puerile, tender, unfledged, unripe, weak, youthful |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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