young

1. 1.

   any immature animal

   Synonymsoffspring

   Broaderanimal

   Narrowerhatchlingorphanyoung mammalyoung birdspatyoung fish
2. 2.

   United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

   SynonymsLoretta Young

   Broaderactress
3. 3.

   United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

   SynonymsWhitney YoungWhitney Moore Young Jr.

   Broadercivil rights leader
4. 4.

   British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)

   SynonymsThomas Young

   BroaderphysicistEgyptologist
5. 5.

   United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

   SynonymsPres YoungLester Willis Young

   Broadersaxophonist
6. 6.

   English poet (1683-1765)

   SynonymsEdward Young

   Broaderpoet
7. 7.

   United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

   SynonymsCy YoungDanton True Young

   Broaderballplayer
8. 8.

   United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)

   SynonymsBrigham Young

   Broaderreligious leader
9. 9.

   young people collectively

   “rock music appeals to the young”

   “youth everywhere rises in revolt”

   Synonymsyouth

   Antonymsaged

   Broaderage group

1. 1.

   (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth

   “young people”

   Synonymsimmature

   Antonymsold

   Similarone-year-oldtwo-year-oldthree-year-oldfour-year-oldfive-year-oldadolescentinfantileboyish

   living thing

2. 2.

   (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity

   “new potatoes”

   “young corn”

   Synonymsnew

   Similarearly
3. 3.

   suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh

   “he is young for his age”

   Synonymsyouthfulvernal
4. 4.

   being in its early stage

   “a young industry”

   “the day is still young”

   Similarnew
5. 5.

   not tried or tested by experience

   “unseasoned artillery volunteers”

   “still untested in battle”

   “an illustrator untried in mural painting”

   “a young hand at plowing”

   Synonymsunseasoneduntesteduntried

   Similarinexperienced

Other forms of young

plural

youngs·

comparative or superlative

younger

comparative or superlative

youngest

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 young

What does young mean?

young means "any immature animal". That is the primary sense; the word has 14 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in young?

young has 1 syllable: young. In IPA it is /ˈjʌŋ/.

What is another word for young?

Close synonyms include offspring, Loretta Young, Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr., Thomas Young. 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.

What is the opposite of young?

The recorded antonyms are aged, old.

Is young a common word?

young is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.