adolescent
/ˌæd.əˈlɛs.ənt/
adolescent adjective: of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
Adjective
adolescent (comparative more adolescent, superlative most adolescent)
- Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
- Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.1785, William Cowper, Tirocinium
- Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71
Noun
adolescent (plural adolescents)
- A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
- It may be wartime, but Miss Adolescent wants her fun!1944, Noel Streatfeild, Theatre Shoes
- Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one...1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 20
adolescent meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
adolescent in Hindi
- characteristic of adolescence
- किशोर kiśor, किशोरी kiśorī
- a teenager
- किशोर kiśor, किशोरी kiśorī
adolescent in Tamil
- வளர்இளம் பருவத்தினர், பதின்ம வயதினர், மழவன், மழஇளைஞன், மடமங்கை, வளரும் இளமைப்பருவத்தைச் சார்ந்த
adolescent in Urdu
- بالِغ, نَمُو پَذیر, برنائی, نوخیز, نوعمر, شباب میں
adolescent in Bengali
- an adolescent or teenaged boy
- কিশোর kiśōr
- an adolescent or teenaged girl
- কিশোরী kiśōri
More languagesFewer languages
- adolescent in Telugu
- కౌమార kaumāra
- adolescent in Malayalam
- യുവാവ്, യുവതി
- adolescent in Kannada
- ಹದಿಹರೆಯ, ಹರೆಯ, ತುಂಬೆಳೆದ, ಹದಿವಯಸ್ಸಿನ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ
- adolescent in Punjabi
- ਅੱਲ੍ਹੜ állaṛ
- adolescent in Arabic
- فَتًى fatan, فَتَاة fatāh
- adolescent in Malay
- remaja
- adolescent in Persian
- برنا bornâ
Examples of adolescent in a sentence
- Developmental psychology studies how the mind forms as children and adolescents grow.
- We've been worried about adolescents' diminishing writing and speaking skills for years.
- SFV addiction is a pathological factor that negatively influences adolescents’ mental states.
Forms of adolescent
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more adolescent |
| superlative | most adolescent |
| Noun | |
| plural | adolescents |
Origin of adolescent
First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.
Words formed from adolescent
Questions about adolescent
- What does adolescent mean?
- Adolescent means of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
- What is adolescent in Hindi?
- Adolescent in Hindi is किशोर (kiśor), किशोरी (kiśorī). See Adolescent meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adolescent?
- Adolescent can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce adolescent?
- Adolescent is pronounced /ˌæd.əˈlɛs.ənt/.
Words near adolescent in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adolescent (page history and authors); adolescent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adolescent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কিশোর (Bengali) (page history and authors); adolescent (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adolescent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅੱਲ੍ਹੜ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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