adolescent
UKædəlesnt
US'ædə'lesənt
معنی فارسی
بالغ جوان
معنی کامل و مثالها
/ad´'l es´'nt/adj., n.
● نوجوان، وابسته به نوجوانی، بالغ (از سن بلوغ تا حدود بیست و یک سالگی)
● کم تجربه، خام، خامدست
his remarks struck me as being adolescent and ill-judged
گفتههایش به نظرم خام و نابخردانه بود.
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Latin adolescentem, meaning a young man or woman.
مثال
- The book is targeted at adolescent readers.
- As an adolescent, he was very rebellious.
- Adolescent behavior can be unpredictable.
ترکیبهای رایج
Adolescent years Adolescent behavior Adolescent development
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent “adolescent problems” “Pertains to noun: adolescence”
- being of the age 13 through 19 “teenage mothers” “the teen years”
- displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity “adolescent insecurity” “jejune responses to our problems” “their behavior was juvenile” “puerile jokes”
- in the state of development between puberty and maturity “adolescent boys and girls”
مترادفها
adjective
Youthful, juvenile, young, growing, in the teens, etc. See adolescence.