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“more adolescent”
adolescent (adjective), more adolescent, most adolescent
1. Referring to the stage of development between childhood and maturity: Jim was in the adolescent phase of life of no longer being a child, but who had not yet reached adulthood.
2. Concerning the behavior of a young person: Jack seemed to be very adolescent and immature because he was so silly in one moment and then crying in the next..
3. Etymology: from Latin adolescent from adolescere, "to be nourished, to grow up". This is also the source of English adult from alere, "to nourish".
2. Concerning the behavior of a young person: Jack seemed to be very adolescent and immature because he was so silly in one moment and then crying in the next..
3. Etymology: from Latin adolescent from adolescere, "to be nourished, to grow up". This is also the source of English adult from alere, "to nourish".
A teenager who acts like a baby when you don't treat him like an adult.
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alesc-, alit-, olesc-
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-ent
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-esce, -escent, -escence
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