younger

[yuhng-ger] / ˈjʌŋ gər /

ADJECTIVE

juvenile

Synonyms

STRONGEST

youthful

STRONG

adolescent blooming budding developing formative green growing infant junior tender young

WEAK

babyish beardless boyish callow childlike fresh girlish immature inexperienced infantile jejune kid stuff milk-fed naive pubescent puerile teenage undeveloped unfledged unripe unsophisticated unweaned vernal

Antonyms

STRONG

experienced mature old older shrinking withering

WEAK

adult grown-up

ADJECTIVE

minor

Synonyms

STRONGEST

inconsequential lesser negligible petty secondary slight trivial unimportant

STRONG

accessory dependent dinky inferior junior light low minus subordinate subsidiary trifling

WEAK

below the mark bush-league casual inconsiderable paltry piddling second-string small-fry small-time smaller tacky two-bit

Antonyms

STRONGEST

consequential important major significant superior useful worthwhile

STRONG

chief strong

WEAK

greater

ADJECTIVE

minor-league

Synonyms

WEAK

accessory below the mark bush-league casual dependent dinky inconsequential inconsiderable inferior junior lesser light low lower minus negligible paltry petty piddling second-string secondary slight small small-fry small-time smaller subaltern subordinate subsidiary tacky trifling trivial two-bit unimportant

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younger

All have distinguished military records, but crucially all are from a much younger generation of officers.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

OpenAI has pivoted its business to selling AI tools to software developers, and is trying to reassert its lead in the AI race after falling behind its younger rival Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The rift with his family members was made public in 2016 when younger brother Jordan Rodgers was a contestant on “The Bachlorette.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

It’s already a fraught time for younger applicants, including the 20-something job hunters doing interviews on their phones instead of on a computer.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Feeling self-conscious about the elaborate mother-of-pearl comb I’d planned to wear today, I’d left my hair unadorned entirely and now I worried that it made me seem even younger than I was.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

younger

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