Adolescent: alternatives and connections

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

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One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.

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The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be…

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The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be…

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The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be…

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Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.

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Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.

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A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad.

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Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.

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The longer wood for making or mending fences.

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