Synonym: jejune, juvenile, puerile, stripling, teen, teenage, teenaged, teenager. Similar words: descend, acquiescence, scent, scene, scenario, telescope, no less than, cholesterol. Meaning: [‚ædə'lesnt] 
n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. adj. 1. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent 2. being of the age 13 through 19 3. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity 4. in the state of development between puberty and maturity.
n. a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity. adj. 1. relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent 2. being of the age 13 through 19 3. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity 4. in the state of development between puberty and maturity. 
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31, A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices.
32, The adolescent, in a sense, is possessed by his or her new-found powers of logical thought.
33, Ben, an awkward adolescent, is closer to being a successfully evolved man than the grown ones he encounters.
34, The adolescent is emboldened with an egocentric belief in the omnipotence of logical thought.
35, To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. Dave Barry 
36, But given, too, Prentice's age, much of the conversation centres on a raw, adolescent metaphysics.
37, As part of this study, we listened at length to adolescent schoolchildren discussing political issues.
38, For example, communes have difficulty in coping with adolescent children.
39, No,(www.Sentencedict.com) our bad mood is caused by the bad mood of the adolescent children with whom we live.
40, This also provides a convenient and acceptable way of avoiding adolescent friction with parents.
41, With the capability for generating endless hypotheses, an adolescent believes that what is best is what is logical.
42, Personality formation continues when and if the adolescent begins to adapt the self to the adult world.
43, And she nails the adolescent angst of budding love in all its raging hormonal hoo-ha.
44, The cognitive capabilities of the adolescent with fully developed formal operations are qualitatively equal to those of the adult.
45, At age 20 in 1910, Egon Schiele still had the hypersensitivity of an adolescent, which was good news for art.
46, Lately he had been as moody as an adolescent and about as helpful.
47, Adolescent girls are the largest group of new smokers in the United States.
48, Teenagers may begin to take drugs to help them escape from adolescent problems they can't cope with.
49, Iain, like any impressionable adolescent, was always going to find the bad sister more exciting.
50, Was she a silly adolescent girl to be so confused and seduced by a handsome face? a beautiful body?
51, So alarming is the frequency of adolescent childbirth that President Clinton recently announced a community-oriented campaign to prevent teen pregnancy.
52, He would certainly conclude that she was up to some adolescent mischief and take her to task again.
53, The significance of adolescent idealistic feelings for adolescent behavior are explored later in this chapter in the discussion of adolescent egocentrism.
54, As the individual adolescent seeks to grow more independent of the family, peer groups and friends become important points of reference.
55, An adolescent confesses to the murder, but Tennison does not believe him.
56, True adaptation to society comes automatically when the adolescent reformer attempts to put his ideas to work.
57, One of them, a boy with red hair, had a bad case of adolescent skin eruptions.
58, But both confess that they originally learned to play guitar and did so from an adolescent adoration of Western pop music.
59, Instead, here she was, going weak at the knees like an adolescent schoolgirl.
60, The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair.
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