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/dʒˈuvənəl/ /dʒˈuvənˌaɪl/ Listen

adjective

Juvenile adj.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation."

Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.

Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile; infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.

Synonyms: Puerile; boyish; childish. See Youthful.

noun

Juvenile n. A young person or youth; used sportively or familiarly.

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Etymology of 'Juvenile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Juvenile" Quotes from Famous Books

... one another, we used to talk of "tweaksies" to express a slight squeeze of the finger-tips, something more like a tickling than a serious pinch. Let us use that word. In conversing with animals, language loses nothing by remaining juvenile. It is the right way for the simple to ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... so soon as his mind was susceptible of rational improvement, his father entered him at Dummer school, under the instruction of Mr. Samuel Moody. It is unnecessary to take notice of the development of his juvenile mind, his attention to literature, and especially his delight in the study of the ancient, Oriental Languages. That distinguished master contemplated the height, to which he would rise in this department; and his remark on him, when leaving the school to enter ...

— The History of Dartmouth College • Baxter Perry Smith

... wore too much of an educational aspect for the children not to tire of it soon, and a little later in the afternoon they were all marched back to Lumsdon, Jude returning to his work. He watched the juvenile flock in their clean frocks and pinafores, filing down the street towards the country beside Phillotson and Sue, and a sad, dissatisfied sense of being out of the scheme of the latters' lives had possession of him. Phillotson had invited him to walk out and see them on Friday evening, when ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... of the few attempts of Shakespeare to exhibit the conversation of gentlemen, to represent the airy sprightliness of juvenile elegance. Mr. Dryden mentions a tradition, which might easily reach his time, of a declaration made by Shakespeare, that he was obliged to kill Mercutio in the third act, lest he should have been killed by him. Yet he thinks him no such formidable person, ...

— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... The Juvenile Stakes had been run and won; Londesley's Lassie had carried off the Locals; and the fight for the Shepherds' Trophy was about ...

— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

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