Adolescent
noun
A person who is in the age between being a child and becoming an adult.
Many adolescents find it hard to establish their own identity.
Often appears as...
- adolescent years
- adolescent growth
adjective
Relating to the time when a person is an adolescent.
Adolescent issues often include school and relationship problems.
Often appears as...
- adolescent problems
- adolescent age
noun
A person who is in the age between being a child and becoming an adult.
Many adolescents find it hard to establish their own identity.
Often appears as...
- adolescent years
- adolescent growth
adjective
Relating to the time when a person is an adolescent.
Adolescent issues often include school and relationship problems.
Often appears as...
- adolescent problems
- adolescent age
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Pro Tip 1/3Age Range
Adolescents are typically 13 to 19 years old, covering the teenage period.
He became more independent during his adolescent years.
Pro Tip 2/3Puberty Reference
Adolescents undergo puberty, experiencing significant physical and emotional changes.
During his adolescent growth spurt, he outgrew all his clothes.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavioral Context
The term 'adolescent' can imply immaturity or inexperience in certain contexts.
Her adolescent behavior at the meeting was unprofessional.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Range
Adolescents are typically 13 to 19 years old, covering the teenage period.
He became more independent during his adolescent years.
Pro Tip 2/3Puberty Reference
Adolescents undergo puberty, experiencing significant physical and emotional changes.
During his adolescent growth spurt, he outgrew all his clothes.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavioral Context
The term 'adolescent' can imply immaturity or inexperience in certain contexts.
Her adolescent behavior at the meeting was unprofessional.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Range
Adolescents are typically 13 to 19 years old, covering the teenage period.
He became more independent during his adolescent years.
Pro Tip 2/3Puberty Reference
Adolescents undergo puberty, experiencing significant physical and emotional changes.
During his adolescent growth spurt, he outgrew all his clothes.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavioral Context
The term 'adolescent' can imply immaturity or inexperience in certain contexts.
Her adolescent behavior at the meeting was unprofessional.
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Are we born to run? PIPE...
who have been doing this for a long time to understand which antelope you're trying to catch. The herd explodes and it gathers back again. Those expert trackers have to be part of the pack. They can't be 10 miles behind. You need the women and the adolescents there, because the two times in your life you most benefit from animal protein
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How friendship affects...
Its activation makes hanging out with others enjoyable and motivates you to spend more time with them. Neuroimaging studies show that this region is highly reactive during your teenage years, which may explain why adolescents seem to place a higher value on social interactions than children or adults.
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"To This Day" ... for...
of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs, four-fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants, and an adolescent being called "Popper,"
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Why some people are more...
of psychopathic adolescents, and our findings, and the findings of other researchers now, have shown that people who are psychopathic pretty reliably exhibit three characteristics. First, although they're not generally insensitive to other people's emotions,
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Reintroducing The...
becomes an adolescent otter wild otters live in holes along riverbanks called halts and a halt will have a few different entrances to protect against flooding with at least one entrance being above water level in the wild coleman would stay in the
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How the worst moments in...
had been raped as an adolescent, and had a child following that rape, which had thrown away her career plans and damaged all of her emotional relationships. But when I met her, she was 50, and I said to her,
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Why do we, like,...
This may mean that filled pauses cue toddlers to expect novel words, and help them connect new words to new objects. For adolescents and adults learning a second language,
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No one can figure out...
Today, we know the freshwater eel lifecycle has five distinct larval leptocepheli, miniscule glass eels, adolescent elvers, older yellow eels, and adult silver eels.
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Documenting what life is...
but this film was not about educating others. It was once again about placing myself in my world. It was about healing old, adolescent memories.
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Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...
life infant child adolescent woman culminating in an all-night dance that will test her endurance the ritual
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Are we born to run? PIPE...
who have been doing this for a long time to understand which antelope you're trying to catch. The herd explodes and it gathers back again. Those expert trackers have to be part of the pack. They can't be 10 miles behind. You need the women and the adolescents there, because the two times in your life you most benefit from animal protein
Video examples
How friendship affects...
Its activation makes hanging out with others enjoyable and motivates you to spend more time with them. Neuroimaging studies show that this region is highly reactive during your teenage years, which may explain why adolescents seem to place a higher value on social interactions than children or adults.
Video examples
"To This Day" ... for...
of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs, four-fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants, and an adolescent being called "Popper,"
Video examples
Why some people are more...
of psychopathic adolescents, and our findings, and the findings of other researchers now, have shown that people who are psychopathic pretty reliably exhibit three characteristics. First, although they're not generally insensitive to other people's emotions,
Video examples
Reintroducing The...
becomes an adolescent otter wild otters live in holes along riverbanks called halts and a halt will have a few different entrances to protect against flooding with at least one entrance being above water level in the wild coleman would stay in the
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
had been raped as an adolescent, and had a child following that rape, which had thrown away her career plans and damaged all of her emotional relationships. But when I met her, she was 50, and I said to her,
Video examples
Why do we, like,...
This may mean that filled pauses cue toddlers to expect novel words, and help them connect new words to new objects. For adolescents and adults learning a second language,
Video examples
No one can figure out...
Today, we know the freshwater eel lifecycle has five distinct larval leptocepheli, miniscule glass eels, adolescent elvers, older yellow eels, and adult silver eels.
Video examples
Documenting what life is...
but this film was not about educating others. It was once again about placing myself in my world. It was about healing old, adolescent memories.
Video examples
Girl's Rite of Passage PIPE...
life infant child adolescent woman culminating in an all-night dance that will test her endurance the ritual
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Noah Baumbach
American Writer
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.
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Jason Katims
American Writer
Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.
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Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
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Laura Kelly
American Politician
Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served disadvantaged adolescents. When I became a recreation therapist, I worked with children battling severe mental illness.
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Hayley Mills
British Actress
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
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Jessica Savitch
American Journalist
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
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Joan Lingard
Scottish Novelist
Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.
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Kathy Bates
American Actress
My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.
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Omar N. Bradley
American General
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Jacqueline Novogratz
American Businesswoman
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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Noah Baumbach
American Writer
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.
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Jason Katims
American Writer
Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.
Quote examples
Maria Montessori
Italian Educator
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
Quote examples
Laura Kelly
American Politician
Fighting for kids has been my lifelong mission. Right out of high school, I went to work at a camp that served disadvantaged adolescents. When I became a recreation therapist, I worked with children battling severe mental illness.
Quote examples
Hayley Mills
British Actress
Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.
Quote examples
Jessica Savitch
American Journalist
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
Quote examples
Joan Lingard
Scottish Novelist
Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.
Quote examples
Kathy Bates
American Actress
My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.
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Omar N. Bradley
American General
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Jacqueline Novogratz
American Businesswoman
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
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