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pubescent

[pyoo-bes-uhnt] / pyuˈbɛs ənt /
ADJECTIVE
adolescent
Synonyms
STRONGEST
immature pre-adult
STRONG
callow growing juvenile young youthful
WEAK
boyish girlish jejune puerile teenage
Antonyms
STRONGEST
mature
WEAK
adult
ADJECTIVE
budding
Synonyms
STRONGEST
burgeoning fledgling growing incipient nascent promising
STRONG
beginning blossoming germinal germinating maturing opening potential pullulating sprouting vegetating young
WEAK
bursting forth embryonic fresh shooting up
Antonyms
WEAK
dying shrinking withering
ADJECTIVE
fertile
Synonyms
STRONGEST
abundant arable fruitful lush productive rich
WEAK
bearing black bountiful breeding breedy bringing forth childbearing childing fecund feracious flowering flowing with milk and honey generative gravid hebetic loamy luxuriant plenteous plentiful pregnant procreant producing proliferant prolific puberal rank spawning teeming uberous vegetative virile with child yielding
Antonyms
STRONGEST
barren impotent sparse unfruitful unproductive
WEAK
fruitless infertile sterile useless
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 puerile teenage undeveloped unfledged unripe unsophisticated unweaned vernal younger
Antonyms
STRONG
experienced mature old older shrinking withering
WEAK
adult grown-up
ADJECTIVE
teenage
Synonyms
WEAK
immature juvenile pre-adult young youthful
ADJECTIVE
young
Synonyms
STRONGEST
budding inexperienced new youthful
STRONG
adolescent blooming blossoming crude developing fledgling green growing infant inferior junior juvenile little modern newborn punk raw recent tender tenderfoot
WEAK
boyish boylike burgeoning callow childish childlike early fresh girlish girllike half-grown ignorant newish not aged puerile undeveloped undisciplined unfinished unfledged unlearned unpracticed unripe unseasoned untried unversed vernal
Antonyms
STRONGEST
experienced old
STRONG
adult healthy mature older sophisticated
ADJECTIVE
youthful
Synonyms
STRONGEST
adolescent boyish childish childlike enthusiastic girlish inexperienced underage young
WEAK
active budding buoyant callow fresh full of life green infant juvenile keen puerile tender vernal vigorous
Antonyms
STRONGEST
adult mature
WEAK
experienced old

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But she hasn’t conceived the teen as anything more than a blunt symbol of pubescent awkwardness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

This pubescent Vance has been adorned with a rainbow propeller hat and a swirly lollipop, morphed into a patriotic Minion from Despicable Me, and rendered as lisping Hans Landa, the Nazi villain from Inglourious Basterds.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2025

A pubescent Usher temporarily lost his voice after recording the first album, pushing him to focus on honing his dance skills and stage presence.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

All these form an enormous playground where monumental things happen at inopportune times, each song a zoetrope world built for consoling and commiserating with the pains of being pubescent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

“What sort of flying motorcars do you have?” asked a pubescent boy named Horace, who wore a dark suit that made him look like an apprentice undertaker.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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