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say it: JOO-vuh-nuhl
juvenile is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people". It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people
“juvenile diabetes”
“juvenile fashions”
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
“adolescent insecurity”
“jejune responses to our problems”
“their behavior was juvenile”
“puerile jokes”
a young person, not fully developed
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for juvenile come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.