Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\ (?; 277), a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis
young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juv['e]nile, juv['e]nil. See
Young.]
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1. Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile
exercitation." --Glanvill.
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2. Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
3. Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile;
infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.
[PJC]
Syn: Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\, n.
A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly.
--C. Bront['e].
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
juvenile
adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for
children or young people; "juvenile diabetes";
"juvenile fashions"
2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent,
jejune, puerile]
n : a youthful person [syn: juvenile person] [ant: adult]
WordNet (r) 2.0
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "juvenile":
Roscius, actor, actress, adolescent, antagonist, at half cock,
baby, babyish, bad guy, barnstormer, best seller, book, bound book,
boy, callow, character, character actor, character man,
character woman, chickabiddy, child actor, childish, classic,
coloring book, definitive work, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer,
feeder, fledgling, florescent, flowering, foil, folio, girl,
great work, green, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hardback,
heavy, histrio, histrion, hopeful, ill-digested, immature, impubic,
infant, infantile, ingenue, junior, juvenal, juvenescent,
juvenile book, kid, limp-cover book, magnum opus, matinee idol,
mime, mimer, mimic, minor, monologist, moppet, mummer, nipper,
nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, pantomime,
pantomimist, paperback, picture book, playactor, playbook, player,
pocket book, prayer book, production, protean actor, psalmbook,
psalter, pubescent, publication, puerile, puss, raw, reciter,
sapling, serial, sketchbook, slip, soft-cover, songbook, soubrette,
sprig, stage performer, stage player, standard work, stooge,
storybook, straight man, stripling, stroller, strolling player,
teenaged, teenager, teener, teenybopper, theatrical, thespian,
title, tome, trade book, trouper, underripe, unfledged, ungrown,
unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unsophisticated, utility man,
villain, volume, work, writing, young, young hopeful, young person,
younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth, youthful,
youthlike, youthy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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