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(n)
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
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(adj)
Childish; trifling; silly.
(by extension, of a speech or an argument) Lacking matter; empty; devoid of substance.
Childish in behavior; juvenile.
a youthful person
Underage; being or occurring below the legal age for a given activity.
(broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
Young or seeming young.
Below the legal age (usually age 18) for some activity, such as consuming alcohol or engaging in sexual intercourse.
A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
Synonym of teenager: a person between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive).
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
A young person.
The time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty.
One who is younger than another.
Suitable for or expected of a child.
A male child.
(not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
(often derogatory) Having little or no importance.
Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the smaller in size (littler), in value, in importance etc.
(adv)
To a smaller extent or degree.
Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.
Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.
An occurrence; something that happens.
In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others.
Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
(Canada, US, Australia, India) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.
A student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
(colloquial) A short, a short seller: one who engages in short selling.
(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
(v)
(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat.
Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
A person who works in a mine.
A surname.
small or little relative to something else
(N)
a 1995 American drama film directed by Larry Clark in his directorial debut and written by Harmony Korine in his screenwriting debut.
at the bottom; lowest or last
an American punk rock band formed in Fullerton, California in 1979.
a magazine that was closed by the Islamic Republic of Iran for being "obscene and empty" in June 1994.
having or being distinguished by diminutive size
"Miners" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.
"Teenagers" is the fourth and final single and the eleventh track from My Chemical Romance's third studio album, The Black Parade.
The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball)
Dated form of teenage. [Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.]
Aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage.
Childish; immature.
(informal) Childish; immature.
Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.
Of, like, or suitable for a child.
Emerging; just coming into existence.
A person who has not begun puberty.
At or just after the age of puberty.
Beginning to develop.
In the process of development.
A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
The state or quality of being juvenile.
A person who, or animal that, is not yet an adult.
(colloquial) A minor (youth); especially, synonym of juvenile delinquent.
A juvenal bird.
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
A person who has not paid their debts.
Conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
Being a recidivist; inclined to revert to previous behaviours.
Not breeding.
Resembling or characteristic of an adult
One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
Resembling a schoolboy in behaviour.
The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
A person who has completed puberty; a sexually mature person.
That serves as a diversion.
Of, relating to, or resulting from the retention of juvenile characteristics by an adult.
One of the male (masculine) sex or gender.
Alternative form of grown-up. [(often childish) An adult.]
Of or relating to larvae:
Characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
A child who has not yet reached puberty.
(chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
Childishly irritable.