underage

1. 1.

   not of legal age

   “minor children”

   Synonymsminornonaged

   law

2. 2.

   dependent by virtue of youth

   Similardependent

Questions about underage

What does underage mean?

underage means "not of legal age". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in underage?

underage has 3 syllables: un-de-rage. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndɚɪdʒ/.

What is another word for underage?

Close synonyms include minor, nonaged. 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 underage a common word?

underage 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.