Main entry: adolescent, teen, teenager, stripling
Definition: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
Main entry: adolescent
Definition: in the state of development between puberty and maturity
Usage: adolescent boys and girls
Main entry: puerile, adolescent, jejune, juvenile
Definition: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
Usage: adolescent insecurity; jejune responses to our problems; their behavior was juvenile; puerile jokes
Main entry: teen, teenage, teenaged, adolescent
Definition: being of the age 13 through 19
Usage: teenage mothers; the teen years
Main entry: adolescent
Definition: relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent
Usage: adolescent problems