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comparative more adolescent, superlative most adolescent
Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult. quotations examples
Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
1785, William Cowper, Tirocinium
Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71
plural adolescents
A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult. quotations examples
‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’
2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 66