1
as in young
being in the early stage of life, growth, or development
a juvenile alligator just hatched from its egg
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2
as in childish
having or showing the annoying qualities (as silliness) associated with children
throwing a tantrum is rather juvenile behavior for a person of your age
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as in adolescent
lacking in adult experience or maturity
a spoiled, juvenile golfer who does not know how to win gracefully
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as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
a medical study that followed juveniles through adolescence and into adulthood
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Recent Examples of juvenile
Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Now, Nieder and her team have reported fascinating findings from studying 10 juvenile rig sharks — five males and five females — caught off the coast of New Zealand.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Data from the Ministry of Justice, meanwhile, shows that 17.3% of these cases involved juveniles between the ages of 10 and 17.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
The no-dallying mindset, strikingly similar to that of Coal Battle, is a huge advantage over the colts — and there are a lot of them out there — who don’t yet know how to focus their juvenile energy.
—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Now, Nieder and her team have reported fascinating findings from studying 10 juvenile rig sharks — five males and five females — caught off the coast of New Zealand.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
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Also, while monitoring a large crowd of drunken juveniles, officers arrested a suspect inside the Medal of Honor Park.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
Data from the Ministry of Justice, meanwhile, shows that 17.3% of these cases involved juveniles between the ages of 10 and 17.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for juvenile
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After Anne’s death, a more paternal side of Cromwell appears—augmented, perhaps, by the loss of his own young daughters to sudden illness, a few years earlier.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2025
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The selection of Viva and Awuah-Darko for the campaign — lensed by young talent Mauro Maglione and styled by Francesca Cisani — speaks to Whitehouse’s ambition to leverage fashion to raise mental health awareness.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
30 Mar. 2025
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The tradeoff is a bit childish, sure, but Harry is also so ubiquitous that just about everyone knows one.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Mar. 2025
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But the benefits in making the Watch jauntily colorful, for instance, could be outweighed by a result that looks, well, childish.—
David Phelan,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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Disturbing New Details Emerge About the State of the Global Climate Chronic Climate Stressors Hadfield and her team identified three main ways that climate change affected adolescent mental health.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
19 Mar. 2025
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The low-scoring adolescent may not have enjoyed those same advantages and may have experienced stress due to poverty.—
Dalton Conley,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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There will be ongoing egg hunts from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with groups of 20 to 30 kids scrambling for eggs, with separate fields for children ages 6 and older; ages 5 and younger; and young children or kids with special needs.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
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Lourd added that their kids often climb into bed with them at night.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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He’s been there; Harper was emotional — at times, immature — as a younger player.—
Matt Gelb,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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From its opening scenes, Severance has presented the procedure the show is named for as a kind of birth, the spawning of a new, immature being.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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Illinois passed a law in August 2023 requiring parents to compensate child influencers, becoming the first state to do so.—
Karen Fratti,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Juvenile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/juvenile. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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