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JUVENILE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young person, not fully developed

Synonyms:

juvenile; juvenile person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("juvenile" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Meronyms (parts of "juvenile"):

juvenile body (the body of a young person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "juvenile"):

preteen; preteenager (a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age))

adolescent; stripling; teen; teenager (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

child; fry; kid; minor; nestling; nipper; shaver; small fry; tiddler; tike; tyke; youngster (a young person of either sex)

ingenue (an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage))

spring chicken; young person; younker; youth (a young person (especially a young man or boy))

Antonym:

adult (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

Derivation:

juvenile (of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

Example:

puerile jokes

Synonyms:

adolescent; jejune; juvenile; puerile

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)

Derivation:

juvenility (lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people

Example:

juvenile fashions

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

youth (the time of life between childhood and maturity)

Derivation:

juvenile (a young person, not fully developed)

juvenility (the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mutations in the gene are frequent in juvenile and acute myelomonocytic leukemias.

(NRAS wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

There are two major subtypes recognized, adult and juvenile granulosa cell tumor.

(Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this allele are associated with type I neurofibromatosis, juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia and Watson syndrome.

(NF1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia.

(MLL/ARHGAP26 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of multiple juvenile polyps in the gastrointestinal tract.

(Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Only one subtype of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (polyarticular-onset, rheumatoid factor-positive) clinically resembles adult rheumatoid arthritis and is considered its childhood equivalent.

(Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Mutations in the gene are associated with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, Noonan syndrome 3 and cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome.

(KRAS wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity; in the state of development between puberty and maturity.

(Adolescent, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene have been associated with congential hypotrichosis and juvenile macular dystrophy.

(CDH3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"Yes—yes—yes!" cried all the juveniles, both ladies and gentlemen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)