adolescent
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˌædəˈlɛsənt/
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inmaduro
- And it's, it's almost like an adolescent trying to understand, like the immense power that they now have.
- adolescent behavior
- adolescent girls
- adolescent boys
And he's like, they'll say, oh, baby's gross, which is like, we just talked about totally normal adolescent response.
- And he's like, they'll say, oh, baby's gross, which is like, we just talked about totally normal adolescent response.
- And you, you know, sit there thinking about what the most important things in the world are in your in your little tiny adolescent brain.
- All that lot are stuck in that pre adolescent mindset.
- People think you have like a adolescent taste buds and you not refine, but I disagree.
- It's patient with our adolescent fuck ups.
- People think you have like a adolescent taste buds and you not refined but I dis fucking agree.
Examples
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But Brandon seemed so absorbed in his own adolescent concerns as to be nearly oblivious.
Fiction book (2002) -
Look, I haven't time for these adolescent antics.
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I talked back, I... broke some normal adolescent rules.
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To hold the secret location of pleasure was an adolescent measure of power.
Fiction book (1990) -
How quickly time was passing and how adolescent I still felt.
Fiction book (2000) -
Jan, that is so adolescent.
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You're obviously going through Some adolescent phase.
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There's something inescapably adolescent about the concept of a favorite author, I admit.
Academic text (1999) -
There is something adolescent in his slouch, in the way he chews his lip.
Fiction book (2002) -
His decision to skip class was an adolescent mistake that he later regretted.
Synonyms
141
2.8
Acting like a child instead of like an adult
108
3.5
Behaving like a child in a way that shows little emotional growth
61
4.2
Acting in an immature or childish way
21
6.5
Acting like a young child in a silly or immature way
8
9.1
Seeming childish and showing little maturity
Acting like a child in a simple, not serious way
Being playful and a little naughty like a young child
Antonyms
How Immature
Surface Forms
Morphology
adolescent = adolescence (semi-transparent) = adolesc + ent
While the form relates to 'adolescence', the sense 'immature/childish' is a figurative extension and not strictly predictable from the base.
Etymology
Adolescent used to mean 'immature' also links to the root adolescere 'to grow up', and a helpful way to remember this sense is to think of behaviour that is not yet fully grown, so it feels young or childish.