teennoun

Examples

He looked uncomfortable, like a self-conscious adolescent who's gone to the wrong party.
I'm looking after six adolescents for a week.
She doesn't understand the emotional problems of adolescents.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Young people
adolescence
baby
boyhood
emo
ephebe
laddishness
larrikin
mall rat
minor
ned
skinhead
Teddy boy
teen
teenager
teenybopper
tween
youngster
youth
youth culture
yute
adolescent
adjective
uk /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/ us /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/
being or relating to an adolescent: 青春期的;青少年的
an adolescent boy青春期的男孩
adolescent concerns/traumas/problems青春期孩子关心的问题／青春期精神创伤／青春期问题
used to describe an adult or an adult's behaviour that is silly and like a child's: （成年人或其行为）孩子气的，幼稚的
adolescent humour/behaviour孩子气的幽默／幼稚的举止
He eventually outgrew his adolescent interest in war and guns.他少年时期对战争和枪炮的兴趣终于不复存在了。
The council was hoping to turn a children's home into a residence for adolescent girls.市议会希望把儿童之家变成青春期少女之家。
My daughter became quite difficult to deal with during her adolescent years.
A lot of adolescent girls suffer from low self-esteem.
It's sad to see a grown man acting in such an adolescent way.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing people who are young
adolescently
at your mother's kneeidiom
be knee-high to a grasshopperidiom
flower
fresh-faced
freshness
knee-high
little
mother
pre-puberty
prepubescent
pubescent
slip
tender
tweener
underage
ya
yoof
young
young adult

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Stupid and silly

adolescent | American Dictionary

adolescent
adjective
us/ˌæd·əlˈes·ənt/
between the ages of a child and an adult:
The two adolescent boys made their mother very tired.
If you describe an adult as adolescent, you mean that the person is behaving in a silly way.

adolescence

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌæd·əlˈes·əns/
[ C ]He had an unhappy adolescence.

adolescent

noun[ C ]us/ˌæd·əlˈes·ənt/
I teach in a middle school, because I like young adolescents.

Examples of adolescent

adolescent
We know and accept that adolescents are neither children nor adults and that they have specific developmental needs.
Our claim is not that all adolescents are insane.
The vast majority of intervention strategies for adolescents seem to adopt this perspective.
Just how, specifically, is the developmental context of adolescents in society different now than it was a half-century ago?
We have also tried, with varying degrees of awareness, effort, and success, to provide adolescents with constructive outlets to satisfy their developmental needs.
The rapid fall in numbers of beds and lengths of stay for adolescents since the advent of managed care points in the same direction.
Clearly, the developmental needs of adolescents differ from those of younger children.
Early adolescents are also struggling for some autonomy from their parents, yet still need adult guidance.
To illustrate this potential complication, suppose, for example, that an investigator found that adolescents experience more fatigue than children.
Rather, it is possible that this increase reflects the fact that in general, adolescents experience more fatigue than children.
The specificity of these findings may reflect the relatively high social deviance of cigarette smoking among adolescents today.
As adolescents aged, they were less likely to show hostility in the discussions in which their parents also displayed hostility toward each other.
There was a marginally significant difference in the percentage of enabling behavior displayed by the two groups of adolescents, t 70!
We express appreciation to the adolescents and schools whose cooperation made this study possible.
In the next section, we illustrate the utility of this approach with a multiwave study of low-income, urban adolescents.
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