Thesaurus:young

Thesaurus:young

THESAURUS

young

English

Sense: having lived for relatively few years

Detail: Of a person or living thing

Synonyms

• baby-faced

• juvenile

• hebetic

• young

• youngling    [WS] (archaic)

• youngly (archaic)

• youngsome

• youngthly (obsolete, poetic)

• youthful

• youthly (archaic)

• youthsome (archaic)

Antonyms

• elderly    [WS]

Hyponyms

Young & female:

• girlish

• nubile

Young & male:

• beardless

• boyish

• unbearded

Various

• callow

• childish

• immature

• puerile

•   —

• coltish

• juvenal

• unfledged

Hypernyms

• new    [WS]

See also

• Thesaurus:active
• Thesaurus:inexperienced

Related terms

• Thesaurus:child (noun, of humans)
• Thesaurus:youngling (noun, of animals)

Further reading

• “127. youth” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “young” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.