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Synonyms for youthful

  • adjective

Most common

young fresh-faced boyish immature

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Fresh-faced — young or seeming young

young, fresh-faced, boyish, immature, juvenile, callow, fresh, sprightly, new, spry, lively, vigorous, puerile, tender, green, unripe, juvenescent, hebetic, childish, unfledged, youngling dated

Other

child-like, beardless, vernal formal

Antonyms

old, mature, passive

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Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Young or seeming young.

Related words

Word family
youthfulness

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or Youthful?

Youthful is commonly employed in a good sense; as, youthful aspirations; or at least by way of extenuating; as, youthful indiscretions.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example sentences

  • juvenile Recently juvenile delinquency has been on the rise.
  • immature He was so immature, he couldn't resist the temptation.
  • boyish I saw his dark face lit up with a boyish enthusiasm as he gazed about him.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
youthfulsteady
juvenilefalling
immaturefalling
boyishrising
beardlesssteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
new1
4 letters
spry1
5 letters
young1, green1, fresh1
6 letters
tender2, lively2, boyish2, vernal2, callow2, unripe
7 letters
puerile2, hebetic
8 letters
juvenile3, immature3, childish2, vigorous3
9 letters
sprightly2, beardless, youngling, unfledged
11 letters
juvenescent

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tender2 = 2 syllables).