Thesaurus:young

Thesaurus

young

English

Adjective

Sense: having lived for relatively few years

Detail: Of a person or living thing

Synonyms

• baby-faced
• juvenile
• hebetic
• young
• youngling    [⇒ thesaurus] (archaic)
• youngly (archaic)
• youngsome
• youngthly (obsolete, poetic)
• youthful
• youthly (archaic)
• youthsome (archaic)

Antonyms

• elderly    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

Young & female:

• girlish
• nubile

Young & male:

• beardless
• boyish
• unbearded

Various

• callow
• childish    [⇒ thesaurus]
• immature
• puerile
•   —
• coltish
• juvenal
• unfledged

Hypernyms

• new    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:active
• Thesaurus:inexperienced

Related terms

• Thesaurus:child (noun, of humans)
• Thesaurus:youngling (noun, of animals)

Further reading

• “127. youth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “young” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.