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View definitions for adolescent

adolescent

adjective as in preadult or immature

noun as in person in puberty, preadulthood

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I knew it was a terrible idea because he had just come off "Titanic," and this is someone who's the hero and the heartthrob of millions of adolescent girls.

From Salon

An adolescent whose life is fractured after he survives an attack in a museum that took his mother, Theo is raised into Manhattan wealth but brokenhearted.

The world is full of voices telling adolescents they don’t matter and don’t understand anything, so a good YA book shouldn’t talk down to teens or portray them as helpless.

Globally, more than half of all adults and a third of children and adolescents are expected to face the same fate.

From BBC

For Ms Luzárraga, it is "children, adolescents who are being co-opted by criminal gangs".

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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