juvenile

juvenile
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for
           children or young people; "juvenile diabetes"; "juvenile
           fashions"
    2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent
       insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their
       behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: {adolescent},
       {jejune}, {juvenile}, {puerile}]
    n 1: a young person, not fully developed [syn: {juvenile},
         {juvenile person}] [ant: {adult}, {grownup}]
    

Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\ (?; 277), a. [L. juvenilis, from juvenis
   young; akin to E. young: cf. F. juv['e]nile, juv['e]nil. See
   {Young}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile
      exercitation." --Glanvill.
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   2. Of or pertaining to youth; as, juvenile sports.

   3. Characteristic of children; immature; childish; puerile;
      infantile; as, a juvenile temper tantrum.
      [PJC]

   Syn: Puerile; boyish; childish. See {Youthful}.
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Juvenile \Ju"ve*nile\, n.
   A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly.
   --C. Bront['e].
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142 Moby Thesaurus words for "juvenile":
      Roscius, actor, actress, adolescent, antagonist, at half cock,
      baby, babyish, bad guy, barnstormer, best seller, book, bound book,
      boy, callow, character, character actor, character man,
      character woman, chickabiddy, child actor, childish, classic,
      coloring book, definitive work, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer,
      feeder, fledgling, florescent, flowering, foil, folio, girl,
      great work, green, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hardback,
      heavy, histrio, histrion, hopeful, ill-digested, immature, impubic,
      infant, infantile, ingenue, junior, juvenal, juvenescent,
      juvenile book, kid, limp-cover book, magnum opus, matinee idol,
      mime, mimer, mimic, minor, monologist, moppet, mummer, nipper,
      nonbook, notebook, novel, opus, opuscule, opusculum, pantomime,
      pantomimist, paperback, picture book, playactor, playbook, player,
      pocket book, prayer book, production, protean actor, psalmbook,
      psalter, pubescent, publication, puerile, puss, raw, reciter,
      sapling, serial, sketchbook, slip, soft-cover, songbook, soubrette,
      sprig, stage performer, stage player, standard work, stooge,
      storybook, straight man, stripling, stroller, strolling player,
      teenaged, teenager, teener, teenybopper, theatrical, thespian,
      title, tome, trade book, trouper, underripe, unfledged, ungrown,
      unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unsophisticated, utility man,
      villain, volume, work, writing, young, young hopeful, young person,
      younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth, youthful,
      youthlike, youthy