young

[yuhng] / yʌŋ /

ADJECTIVE

immature

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 pubescent puerile undeveloped undisciplined unfinished unfledged unlearned unpracticed unripe unseasoned untried unversed vernal

Antonyms

STRONGEST

experienced old

STRONG

adult healthy mature older sophisticated

NOUN

animate beings that are not mature

Synonyms

STRONGEST

baby family

STRONG

babies brood infants issue litter offspring progeny

WEAK

little ones

Antonyms

STRONG

parent

Example Sentences

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He realised the number of young migrants on the island was growing, but local authorities only looked after them until they turned 18.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Then, he’d warned the young women that their chances of getting married and having children would drop precipitously if they hadn’t achieved either by age 30.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

There are also different levels of shallow water for young swimmers and toddlers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

The whole affair was tawdry, shabby, and cheap—designed to pander to downwardly mobile young men who felt angry at the world.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

The young woman who had spoken kindly to me the night before, I did discover, was a baroness, only seventeen years old.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

young

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