Related Searches
Nearby Words
youthfulness
[yooth-fuhl] 
| Main Entry: |
adolescence
[ad-l-es-uhns]
|
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of puberty, preadulthood |
| Synonyms: | boyhood, girlhood, greenness, juvenility, minority, pubescence, spring, teens, youth, youthfulness |
| Notes: | adolescence is the period of transition from childhood to adulthood; puberty is the time of sexual development |
| Antonyms: | adulthood, infancy |
| 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: | 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: | immaturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | childhood |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, infancy, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | minority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the time before one is of legal age |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, childhood, immaturity, pubescence, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, juvenility, minority, prime, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | juvenescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenility, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | juvenility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | youth |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, awkward age, bloom*, boyhood, childhood, girlhood, greenness, ignorance, immaturity, inexperience, innocence, juvenescence, minority, prime*, puberty, salad days, spring, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youthfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
