Synonyms of the word

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.

actress

• n. A female who performs on the stage or in films.
• n. (now rare) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).

adolescent

• adj. Characteristic of, or relating to, or undergoing adolescence; immature.
• n. A teenager; a juvenile after puberty.

animal

• n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
• n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
• n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
• n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
• n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
• adj. Of or relating to animals.
• adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
• adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
• adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

beast

• n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
• n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
• n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
• n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
• n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
• n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
• n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
• v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
• adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

boyish

• adj. Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.

boylike

• adj. Resembling a boy.

brute

• adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
• adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
• adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
• adj. Crude, unpolished.
• adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
• adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
• adj. Inexplicable.
• n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
• n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
• n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
• v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

childlike

• adj. innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
• adj. of, like, or suitable for a child.

childly

• adj. Of or pertaining to a young child; childlike.

cohort

• n. A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
• n. (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common…
• n. (military, historical) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 men.
• n. An accomplice; abettor; associate.
• n. Any band or body of warriors.
• n. (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
• n. A colleague.
• n. A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the…

creature

• n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
• n. A living being; an animal or human.
• n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

early

• adj. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
• adj. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
• adj. Near the start or beginning.
• adj. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
• adv. At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
• adv. Soon; in good time; seasonably.
• n. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.

fauna

• n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

formative

• adj. Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
• adj. Capable of forming something.
• adj. (biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
• adj. (grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
• adj. (education) Denoting forms of assessment used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.
• n. (grammar) A language unit that has morphological function.

girlish

• adj. Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
• adj. (archaic) Of or relating to girlhood.

immature

• adj. Not fully formed or developed, unripe, not mature.
• adj. Childish in behavior, not mature.
• n. An immature member of a species.

inexperienced

• adj. Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
• adj. Virginal or lacking in personal knowledge and experiences of sex.

infantile

• adj. Pertaining to infants.
• adj. Childish; immature.

junior

• adj. (comparable) Low in rank; having a subordinate role, job, or situation.
• adj. (not comparable, often preceded by a possessive adjective or a possessive form of a noun) Younger.
• adj. (not comparable) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life.
• adj. (not comparable, chiefly US) Of or pertaining to a third academic year in a four-year high school (eleventh…
• n. A younger person.
• n. A name suffix used after a son's name when his father has the same name (abbreviations: Jnr., Jr., Jun…
• n. (chiefly US) A third-year student at a high school or university.

little

• adj. Small in size.
• adj. Insignificant, trivial.
• adj. Very young.
• adj. (of a sibling) Younger.
• adj. Used with the name of place, especially of a country, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers…
• adj. Small in amount or number, having few members.
• adj. Short in duration; brief.
• adj. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
• adv. Not much.
• adv. Not at all.

new

• adj. Recently made, or created.
• adj. Additional; recently discovered.
• adj. Current or later, as opposed to former.
• adj. Used to distinguish something established more recently, named after something or some place previously…
• adj. In original condition; pristine; not previously worn or used.
• adj. Refreshed, reinvigorated, reformed.
• adj. Newborn.
• adj. Of recent origin; having taken place recently.
• adj. Strange, unfamiliar or not previously known.
• adj. Recently arrived or appeared.
• adj. Inexperienced or unaccustomed at some task.
• adj. (of a period of time) Next; about to begin or recently begun.
• adv. Newly (especially in composition).
• adv. As new; from scratch.
• n. Things that are new.
• n. (Australia) A kind of light beer.
• n. (in the plural) See news.
• v. (obsolete) To make new; to recreate; to renew.

newborn

• adj. recently born.
• adj. born anew, reborn.
• n. A recently born baby.

offspring

• n. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
• n. All a person's descendants, including further generations.
• n. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
• n. (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
• n. (computing) A process launched by another process.

one-year-old

• adj. having lived or existed for one year.
• n. a child or animal that is one year of age.

physicist

• n. A person whose occupation specializes in the science of physics, especially at a professional level.
• n. (archaic) A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena of life are to be explained upon purely…

poet

• n. A person who writes poems.

preadolescent

• adj. Of or relating to preadolescence.
• n. A child who has not yet reached puberty.

preteen

• adj. Of, relating to, or designed for, or being children between the ages of approximately 10 and 12.
• n. A child in this age group.

puppyish

• adj. With the playful, innocent, eager-to-please or energetic qualities of a puppy.

puppylike

• adj. Resembling a puppy.

saxist

• n. saxophonist; someone who plays the sax.

saxophonist

• n. A person who plays or practices with the saxophone.

schoolboyish

• adj. Resembling a schoolboy in behaviour.

schoolgirlish

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of a schoolgirl.

small

• adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
• adj. (figuratively) Young, as a child.
• adj. (writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
• adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.
• adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
• adv. In a small fashion.
• adv. In or into small pieces.
• adv. (obsolete) To a small extent.
• n. (rare) Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make little or less.
• v. (intransitive) To become small; to dwindle.

teen

• n. (clipped form of teenager) A person between 13 and 19 years old.
• adj. Of or having to do with teenagers.
• n. (archaic) Grief; sorrow; trouble; ill-fortune; harm; suffering.
• n. (archaic or obsolete) Vexation; anger; hate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become angry or distressed.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.

teenage

• n. (chiefly Kent dialect) Brushwood for fences and hedges.
• adj. Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.

teenaged

• adj. aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage.

tender

• adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
• adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
• adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
• adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
• adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
• adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
• adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
• adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
• adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
• adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
• adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
• v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
• v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
• n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
• n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
• n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
• n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
• n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
• n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
• v. (formal) To offer, to give.
• v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
• n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
• n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
• n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

unseasoned

• adj. Not seasoned.

untested

• adj. Not previously tested.

untried

• adj. Not yet tried or tested; unknown.
• adj. (law) Not put on trial, not taken before a lawcourt.

vernal

• adj. Pertaining to spring.
• adj. Young; fresh.
• adj. Belonging to youth.

young

• adj. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• adj. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• adj. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• adj. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• adj. (of a decade of life) Early.
• adj. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• adj. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• adj. (obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
• n. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
• n. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• n. (rare, possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
• v. (informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
• v. (informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
• v. (geology) To exhibit younging.

youngish

• adj. Somewhat young.

youth

• n. (uncountable) The quality or state of being young.
• n. (uncountable) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age;…
• n. (countable) A young person.
• n. (countable) A young man.
• n. (uncountable) (used in plural form) Young persons, collectively.

youthful

• adj. Young or seeming young.
• adj. Characteristic of young people.