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mid-adolescent

mid-adolescent adjective: being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence.

Adjective

mid-adolescent (comparative more mid-adolescent, superlative most mid-adolescent)

  1. being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence
    • The Phi store on Greene Street is a vast cool, dark space of dizzying height, an effect accentuated by smooth free-standing obsidian walls and willowy black Corinthian pillars that seem to be in a midadolescent growth spurt.2007 August 9, Cintra Wilson, “A (Very Poised) Dance on the Table”, in New York Times

Forms of mid-adolescent

comparativemore mid-adolescent
superlativemost mid-adolescent

Origin of mid-adolescent

From mid- + adolescent.

Questions about mid-adolescent

What does mid-adolescent mean?
Mid-adolescent means being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence.
What part of speech is mid-adolescent?
Mid-adolescent is an adjective.

Words near mid-adolescent in the dictionary

  1. Mid Suffolk
  2. Mid Sussex
  3. Mid West
  4. mid youth
  5. mid-
  6. mid-adolescent
  7. mid-aged
  8. mid-air
  9. Mid-America
  10. Mid-American
  11. Mid-Americans

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