adolescent

1. 1.

   a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

   Synonymsstriplingteenagerteen

   Broaderjuvenile

   Narrowerchebabmodpachucopunk rockerrockeryoung buck

Other forms of adolescent

plural

adolescents·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adolescent

What does adolescent mean?

adolescent means "relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adolescent?

adolescent has 4 syllables: ad-o-les-cent. The stress falls on "les". In IPA it is /ˌædəˈlɛsənt/.

What is another word for adolescent?

Close synonyms include teen, teenage, teenaged, jejune, juvenile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adolescent a common word?

adolescent is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adolescent?

2 words rhyme with adolescent. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.