Synonyms for juvenile
- adjective
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Immature — characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish
immature, puerile, young, childish, adolescent, youthful, infantile, babyish, boyish, youngling, infantine, jejune, kiddish informal, childly, babish, bairnlike rare UK
Other
pubescent, baby-faced, youngly, hebetic, youngsome, child-like, youthly dated, youthsome dated, youngthly formal dated
Noun
Definitions
- adj. 1
Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish.
- n. 1
A person younger than the age of majority; a minor.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- juveniles → juvies, children, infants, youths…
Choose the right word
Juvenile is sometimes taken in a bad sense, as when speaking of youth in contrast with manhood; as, juvenile tricks; a juvenile performance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- childish Don't be saying that childish shit at the age of 30.
- immature He was so immature, he couldn't resist the temptation.
- adolescent The adolescent giraffe was banished from the herd.
- puerile Is this another one of your puerile jokes?
- pubescent Sami was obsessed with pubescent girls.
By length
- 3 letters
- kid1
- 5 letters
- young1, child1, youth1, juvie
- 6 letters
- infant2, boyish2, jejune2, babish2
- 7 letters
- puerile2, babyish3, kiddish, childly, youngly, hebetic, youthly
- 8 letters
- immature3, childish2, youthful2
- 9 letters
- infantile3, pubescent, stripling2, youngling, infantine, bairnlike, youngsome, youthsome, youngthly
- 10 letters
- adolescent4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (infant2 = 2 syllables).