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adolescent 音标拼音: [ ,ædəl'ɛsənt] [ ,ædol'ɛsənt] a. 青春期的,青年的
n. 青少年 青春期的,青年的青少年 adolescent adj 1: relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; " adolescent problems" 2: being of the age 13 through 19; " teenage mothers"; " the teen years" [ synonym: { adolescent}, { teen}, { teenage}, { teenaged}] 3: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; " adolescent insecurity"; " jejune responses to our problems"; " their behavior was juvenile"; " puerile jokes" [ synonym: { adolescent}, { jejune}, { juvenile}, { puerile}] 4: in the state of development between puberty and maturity; " adolescent boys and girls" n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [ synonym: { adolescent}, { stripling}, { teenager}, { teen}] Adolescent \ Ad` o* les" cent\ ([ a^] d`[- o]* l[ e^] s" sent), a. [ L. adolescens, p. pr. of adolescere to grow up to; ad the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See { Adult}.] Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. [ 1913 Webster] Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster]
Adolescent \ Ad` o* les" cent\, n. A youth. [ 1913 Webster] 41 Moby Thesaurus words for " adolescent": at half cock, baby, callow, fledgling, green, half- baked, half- cocked, half- grown, hopeful, ill- digested, immature, impubic, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, maturescent, minor, nubile, pubescent, raw, sapling, slip, sprig, stripling, teenager, teener, teenybopper, underripe, unfledged, ungrown, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth
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