juvenile

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ju=ve=nile

CIDE DICTIONARY

juvenile, a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juvénile, juvénil. See Young.].

•  Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.  Glanvill.  [1913 Webster]
•  Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.
•  Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.  [PJC]

Syn. -- Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.

juvenile, n. 

 A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly.  C. Bront'82.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

juvenile, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 a young, youthful. b of or for young persons.
2 suited to or characteristic of youth.
3 often derog. immature (behaving in a very juvenile way).
--n.
1 a young person.
2 Commerce a book intended for young people.
3 an actor playing the part of a youthful person.

Idiom

juvenile court a court for the trial of children under 17. juvenile delinquency offences committed by a person or persons below the age of legal responsibility. juvenile delinquent such an offender.

Derivative

juvenilely adv. juvenility n.

Etymology

L juvenilis f. juvenis young

THESAURUS

juvenile

Roscius, actor, actress, adolescent, antagonist, at half cock, baby, babyish, bad guy, barnstormer, best seller, book, bound book, boy, callow, character, character actor, character man, character woman, chickabiddy, child actor, childish, classic, coloring book, definitive work, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, feeder, fledgling, florescent, flowering, foil, folio, girl, great work, green, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hardback, heavy, histrio, histrion, hopeful, ill-digested, immature, impubic, infant, infantile, ingenue, junior, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile book, kid, limp-cover book, magnum opus, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, minor, monologist, moppet, mummer, nipper, nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, pantomime, pantomimist, paperback, picture book, playactor, playbook, player, pocket book, prayer book, production, protean actor, psalmbook, psalter, pubescent, publication, puerile, puss, raw, reciter, sapling, serial, sketchbook, slip, soft-cover, songbook, soubrette, sprig, stage performer, stage player, standard work, stooge, storybook, straight man, stripling, stroller, strolling player, teenaged, teenager, teener, teenybopper, theatrical, thespian, title, tome, trade book, trouper, underripe, unfledged, ungrown, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unsophisticated, utility man, villain, volume, work, writing, young, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth, youthful, youthlike, youthy

ROGET THESAURUS

juvenile

Youth

N youth, juvenility, juvenescence, juniority, infancy, babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood, incunabula, minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom, cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage, prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life, seedtime of life, golden season of life, heyday of youth, school days, rising generation, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.