Overview of noun adolescent

The noun adolescent has 1 sense

• adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen -- (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

Overview of adj adolescent

The adj adolescent has 4 senses

• adolescent -- (relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems")


• adolescent, teen, teenage, teenaged -- (being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years")


• adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile -- (displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes")


• adolescent -- (in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls")