juvenile delinquent

1. 1.

   a young offender

   Synonymsdelinquent

   Broaderwrongdoer

Questions about juvenile delinquent

What does juvenile delinquent mean?

juvenile delinquent means "a young offender".

What is another word for juvenile delinquent?

Close synonyms include delinquent. 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 juvenile delinquent a common word?

juvenile delinquent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.