adolescent
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- adjective
- /ˌæd.əˈlɛs.ənt/
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adolescente
- During the adolescent years, teenagers often struggle with their identities as they transition to adulthood.
- adolescent health
- adolescent development
- adolescent behavior
And by the time you hit your late adolescent years, it sort of stabilizes for a bit.
- And by the time you hit your late adolescent years, it sort of stabilizes for a bit.
- We're in the late adolescent stage.
- Well, as you said, I'm a child and adolescent and adult psychiatrist, a medical doctor.
- And so he's going through a, a kind of adolescent surge with all these hormones and, and other chemicals racing around in his body.
Examples
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Lindh's parents' marriage had serious problems throughout his adolescent years and ended in a divorce in 1999.
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He had a difficult adolescent period.
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- It's common in adolescent boys.
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Considering all this, how do the parents of adolescent drug users explain the situation?
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The study was guided by two questions: How do adolescent female choir students experience voice change?
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Few studies have been done on relationships between adolescent online gaming and life satisfaction.
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Despite the vast amount of research on parenting behavior and adolescent adjustment, several questions remain.
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Based on the above findings, the following hypotheses about adolescent Internet behavior are proposed.
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What steps are choral directors taking toward meeting the needs of adolescent female singers experiencing voice change?
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We have fewer resources for mental health trusts, fewer mental health nurses, fewer child and adolescent psychiatrists.
Synonyms
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Relating to people aged 13 to 19
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For people aged 13 to 19
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About people who are 13 to 19 years old
How Young
Surface Forms
Morphology
adolescent = adolescence (transparent) = adolesc + ent
The adjective is directly related to the noun 'adolescence' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ent', so learners who know 'adolescence' will readily infer the adjective.
Etymology
Adolescent as an adjective comes from the old Latin adolescere 'to grow up', so it describes the time of growing into an adult, like the teenage years.