under-age
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Under-age \Un"der-age`\, a.
1. Not having arrived at adult age; hence, incapable legally
of performing certain acts restricted to adults.
[PJC]
2. Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of
discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish.
[Obs.]
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I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a
great deal of under-age protestation. --J. Webster.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. See {Depend}, and cf. {Dependant}.]
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon;
as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of
{independent}. [Narrower terms: {interdependent,
mutualist, mutually beneficial}; {parasitic, parasitical,
leechlike, bloodsucking}; {subordinate}; {underage};
{myrmecophilous}; {symbiotic}] Also See: {unfree}.
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England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --Macaulay.
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3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of
{unconditional}.
Syn: qualified.
[WordNet 1.5]
4. addicted to drugs.
Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
[WordNet 1.5]
{Dependent covenant} or {Dependent contract} (Law), one not
binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
{Dependent variable} (Math.), a varying quantity whose
changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
changes in another variable, which is called the
{independent variable}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "underage":
budding, callow, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, dewy, green,
growing, immature, impubic, inadequacy, inexperienced, ingenuous,
innocent, insufficiency, intact, juicy, lack, minor, naive,
new-fledged, raw, ripening, sappy, scantiness, shortage, tender,
unadult, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed,
unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal
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