Crossword-Solution: ADOLESCENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adolescent | a. | Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. |
| Adolescent | n. | A youth. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ADOLESCENT | anagram | SECONDLATE |
We have 141 clues for the answer “ADOLESCENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| *Pineapple perfume? | 1 answer |
| Hebetic one | 1 answer |
| One between 10 and 20, say | 1 answer |
| Teen, e.g. | 1 answer |
| What Bob is wearing that smells so good? | 1 answer |
| Y*H | 1 answer |
| in the state of adolescence | 1 answer |
| in the state of development between puberty and maturity | 1 answer |
| Approaching maturity. | 2 answers |
| Many a high schooler | 2 answers |
| Not mature | 2 answers |
| Pre-adult | 2 answers |
| under legal age | 3 answers |
| Growing up. | 4 answers |
| LIKE a boy | 6 answers |
| missy | 6 answers |
| Romeo or Juliet | 7 answers |
| nonage | 8 answers |
| Tomboy | 9 answers |
| Beardless | 10 answers |
| Stripling | 11 answers |
| inoffensive | 11 answers |
| Colleen | 14 answers |
| RELIANT person | 16 answers |
| Lassie | 18 answers |
| Minor | 19 answers |
| Chit | 22 answers |
| Lass | 22 answers |
| Schoolgirl | 23 answers |
| Junior | 26 answers |
| urchin | 26 answers |
| kiddish | 33 answers |
| unmatured | 33 answers |
| Teen-ager. | 37 answers |
| Teen | 38 answers |
| flapper | 38 answers |
| unripe | 39 answers |
| Juvenile | 39 answers |
| coltish | 40 answers |
| hoyden | 40 answers |
| puerile | 40 answers |
| Minx | 42 answers |
| Wench | 42 answers |
| buried | 42 answers |
| Embryonic | 43 answers |
| Underlying | 43 answers |
| inexperienced person | 43 answers |
| Suppressed | 46 answers |
| irresponsible | 47 answers |
| Boy | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADOLESCENT (5)
From this adolescent drowsiness the lad was awakened by two voices, by two women who sang in New York in 1851,—Jenny Lind and Henrietta Sontag.
The ethos 'honor among thieves' held true here as it did in many adolescent societies, most recently the American Old West.
See Adolescent, Old.] Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
The analogy, in fact, is complete; and Starbuck’s conclusion as to these ordinary youthful conversions would seem to be the only sound one: Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child’s small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
Here is a delicate young man now, with an intellectual countenance, a slight figure, a sub-pallid complexion, a most unassuming deportment, a mild adolescent in fact, that any Hiram or Jonathan from between the ploughtails would of course expect to handle with perfect ease.
Quotes with ADOLESCENT (3)
When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...
No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.
I didn't hit other people or hit purposefully, I just hit. Some object would be at fault. My anger was at myself, every time, all vanity. As an adolescent I was a slammer of drawers and a packer of suitcases. I was responsible for scenes. Control came imperfectly to all of us: we reached it at different times of life, frustrated, shot into indignation, by different things - some that are grown out of, and others not. Of all my strong emotions, anger is the one least responsib…
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Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).