(of) a boy or girl in the period between being a child and being an adult
"adolescent problems"
"teenage mothers"
"the teen years"
"adolescent insecurity"
"jejune responses to our problems"
"their behavior was juvenile"
"puerile jokes"
"adolescent boys and girls"
Their adolescent faces.
出自: M. Peake
This adolescent country.
出自: fig.