Concept cluster: Society > Youth or being young
adj
Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; exhibiting youth-like beauty.
n
The tendency to interpret the behaviour of children as if they were adults
adj
Always appearing youthful; never seeming to age.
n
An outward appearance more youthful than one's true age.
n
(literature) Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms.
n
The state or period of infancy.
n
The state or quality of being babyish.
n
The property or state of being a baby or being babylike.
adj
Characteristic of a beginner or novice.
adj
Characteristic of a baby boomer.
n
The state or period of being a boy.
n
The state or condition of being a boy; masculinity, boyhood.
n
(historical, often capitalized) Synonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
n
(idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) One who is youthful, clever, eager, and high-spirited in manner and attractive in appearance.
n
The state or time of being a calf.
n
The state or period of being a chicken.
n
(by extension) The early stages of development of something.
n
Prejudice and/or discrimination against the young.
n
The state or quality of being childly.
n
(nonstandard) childhood
n
(figuratively) Youthful desires, especially lust.
n
The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
n
(by extension) youth
n
A stage in human development, generally including toddlerhood and some time afterwards.
n
(by extension) A young man; a youth.
adj
Untried or inexperienced.
n
The state or time of being a foal.
n
(idiomatic) Anything reputed to have the power to restore health and vitality or to restore a youthful appearance.
adj
Youthful; florid.
adj
(idiomatic, of people) Looking young and healthy.
n
(uncountable) The state of being a girl.
adv
In a girlish manner.
adj
(by extension) Somewhat wild or inexperienced; not completely socialized or comfortable with an activity.
n
Pronunciation spelling of greenhorn. [(chiefly US) an inexperienced person; a novice, beginner or newcomer]
adj
Like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.
n
Inexperience.
adj
Of or related to youth or to puberty.
n
(archaic) An exultation of the spirits; gaiety; frolic.
n
The youth organization of the Nazi Party.
n
Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown
adj
(rare) Immature; not having come to puberty.
adv
(literary, idiomatic) when one was young and happy
adj
Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
n
(law) The state of being a minor.
n
Young people who are dazzlingly rich, elegant, etc.; the youthful part of fashionable society.
n
(obsolete) A youth.
adj
Becoming juvenile or young.
adj
Young; not fully developed.
n
juvenility
n
(literature, plural only) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
n
juvenile behaviour; immaturity
n
juvenile behaviour, writing, etc.
v
To maintain in a juvenile state.
n
(neologism) The fear or hostility directed by an older generation toward a younger one, or toward youth culture in general.
n
(rare) The state or condition of being a kidult.
n
The state or time of being a kitten.
n
The state or condition of a kitten; kittenhood.
n
The state of being a minor; youth, the period of a person's life prior to reaching adulthood.
n
(physiology) The state of puberty in a female.
n
A naive person; a greenhorn.
adj
Relating to youth or the early stages.
n
(litotes) Said of a person who is no longer particularly young.
n
The state of being under legal age; minority, the fact of being a minor.
adj
Characteristic of a novice; inexperienced; amateurish.
n
(idiomatic) Someone that has have the wisdom of age during his or her physical youth.
n
Alternative form of old timer's disease. [(pathology, slang) Eggcorn of Alzheimer’s disease.]
adj
Excessively youthful.
adj
(psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.
n
The state of having a perpetually youthful appearance.
n
(psychology) An archetype of eternal youth; (loosely) a man who remains emotionally childlike.
n
The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
adj
(obsolete) Younger; junior.
adj
Inexperienced.
adj
Not experienced; novice.
adj
New or inexperienced.
adj
Characteristic of a rookie; amateurish, naive.
adj
Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
n
(idiomatic) The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.
adj
(rare, literary) Forever young or growing younger.
n
(rare) The property of being seventeen.
n
(often sarcastic) Someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship.
n
The state of being in one's teenage years.
n
(colloquial, humorous) immature or rebellious behaviour characteristic of teenagers
n
The state of being a teen or teenager, adolescence.
adj
Young and inexperienced.
n
(chiefly Canada, US) An inexperienced person; a novice.
v
A sincere plea to consider the young.
n
(uncountable) The state of being a toddler.
n
The state, condition or a time period of being a toddler.
n
The state of being a tomboy.
n
(uncountable) The state or condition of being such a young person.
adj
Like a tyro or novice; untutored.
adj
Underage; being or occurring below the legal age for a given activity.
adj
(figuratively) Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
adj
(figuratively) Naive, wet behind the ears, green, inexperienced.
adj
Inexperienced.
adj
Having youthful or new qualities.
adj
(slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
adj
(idiomatic) Inexperienced; just beginning; immature (especially in judgment).
adj
Alternative spelling of wet behind the ears [(idiomatic) Inexperienced; just beginning; immature (especially in judgment).]
n
Alternative form of old head on young shoulders [(idiomatic) Someone that has have the wisdom of age during his or her physical youth.]
n
(UK, television) Abbreviation of youth., usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked. [(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.]
n
Abbreviation of year(s) old; also yo, y/o.
n
(publishing) Initialism of young adult. [A person who has achieved the age of majority but whose character and personality are still developing as they gain experience.]
n
Someone who is the same age as oneself.
n
someone who yearns
n
(euphemistic, humorous) years old
adj
Obsolete spelling of young [In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.]
n
(obsolete) Alternative form of youngth [(archaic) youth; the quality of being young]
n
Obsolete spelling of younker [a young man; a lad, youngster]
n
(British slang, sometimes attributive) youth (young person, young people or the state of being young)
adj
archaic, chiefly Scottish spelling of young
n
Alternative form of you can't put an old head on young shoulders [Young people inevitably lack the experience and wisdom which come with age.]
n
Young people inevitably lack the experience and wisdom which come with age.
n
Pronunciation spelling of youth. [(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.]
n
Obsolete form of youth. [(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.]
n
The state or quality of being yourself.
adj
(of a decade of life) Early.
n
(bingo) fifteen
adj
(idiomatic) Having the joy and vitality associated with younger people, despite one's own advanced age.
n
(idiomatic) young people; youth
n
An adventurous or high-spirited young man.
adj
young at heart
n
Someone who constitutes or brings fresh blood, especially a youngster who joins an older team etc.
adj
Obsolete spelling of young [In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.]
n
The act or process of making or becoming young.
adj
young
n
Teenagers and young adults.
n
(obsolete) Younghood, youth.
n
youth, the state of being young
adj
Of or relating to Lester Young (1909–1959), American jazz musician.
adj
(archaic) Young; youthful.
adv
(archaic) While young; as a youth.
n
Alternative form of youngin [(Southern US, Britain West Country, Northern England, informal) A young one: a youth, a child, a kid, young person.]
adj
Seemingly young in appearance, manner, or behaviour; youthful
n
A young person.
n
(archaic) youth; the quality of being young
adj
(obsolete, poetic) youthful
n
Alternative form of young'un. [(Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Britain West Country, Northern England, informal) child]
n
a young man; a lad, youngster
n
Pronunciation spelling of youth. [(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.]
n
Pronunciation spelling of youth. [(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.]
n
(uncountable, used with a plural or singular verb) Young persons, collectively.
n
juvenile delinquency
n
A political, religious, or social movement led by or consisting of mainly young people.
n
Obsolete form of youth. [(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.]
n
(slang, rare) A euphemism that is used to appeal to older individuals.
v
(intransitive) To become younger or more youthful.
n
The act or process of making younger or more youthful.
n
(euphemistic) A minor mistake of a romantic or sexual nature, made by a young person.
n
The vitality characteristic of youth.
n
(obsolete) Youth; youthhood.
n
The state of being young, either in age or in spirit; youth.
v
(transitive) To make youthful.
n
discrimination against young people
n
(sociology) A fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of youth.
adj
Devoid of youth; old, aged.
adj
Characteristic of youth.
adj
(archaic) Youthful.
n
(West Africa) A man who has reached the age of adulthood but has not attained an adult social status (living independently with a stable livelihood, marriage, and family).
n
The state, quality, or condition of being a youth; adolescence
n
(informal) A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
adj
(archaic) youthful
n
(archaic) The time when one is young; youth.
n
(poetic, archaic) The time when one is young; youth or childhood.
adv
Towards youth.
adj
(obsolete) young
n
(Jamaican Patois, MLE, MTE, derogatory, slang) A youth, a young person, often a young black person.

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