Youngness

Young  (yng), Andrew Jackson, Jr. Born 1932.

American diplomat and politician. He served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (1977-1979) and as mayor of Atlanta (1981-1989).

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Young, Brigham 1801-1877.

American religious leader who directed the Mormon Church after the assassination (1844) of its founder, Joseph Smith. He led an exodus of the Mormons from their troubled settlement in Illinois to the site of present-day Salt Lake City, Utah, where they established a permanent home for the church (1847).

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Young, Denton True Known as "Cy." 1867-1955.

American baseball player. A pitcher for 22 seasons, he won 515 games, including 76 shutouts and 3 no-hit games.

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Young, Edward 1683-1765.

English poet known for his dramatic monologue Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742-1745).

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Young, Lester Willis Known as "Pres." 1909-1959.

American jazz musician with an improvisational, influental tenor saxophone style.

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Young, Thomas 1773-1829.

British physician, physicist, and Egyptologist who revived the wave theory of light and postulated the three-color theory of color vision. He also helped decipher the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone.

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young  (yng)

adj. young·er, young·est

1. Being in an early period of life, development, or growth.

2. Newly begun or formed; not advanced: The evening is still young.

3. Of, belonging to, or suggestive of youth or early life: He is young for his age.

4. Vigorous or fresh; youthful.

5. Lacking experience; immature: a young hand at plowing.

6. Being the junior of two people having the same name.

7. Geology Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.

n.

1. Young persons considered as a group; youth: entertainment for the young.

2. Offspring; brood: a lioness with her young.

Idiom:

with young

Pregnant.

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[Middle English yong, from Old English geong; see yeu- in Indo-European roots.]

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youngness n.

Synonyms: young, youthful, adolescent, immature, juvenile, puerile, green
These adjectives mean of, relating to, characteristic of, or being in an early period of growth or development. Young is the most general of the terms: a young child.
Youthful suggests characteristics, such as enthusiasm, freshness, or energy, that are associated with youth: youthful ardor.
Adolescent specifically implies the characteristics of those in the period between childhood and maturity: adolescent insecurity.
Immature applies to what is not yet fully developed; it sometimes suggests that someone falls short of an expected level of maturity: an emotionally immature adult.
Juvenile connotes immaturity, often childishness: the juvenile pranks of the conventioneers.
Puerile is used derogatorily to suggest silliness, foolishness, or infantilism: a puerile joke.
Green implies lack of training or experience and sometimes callowness: green recruits who couldn't deal with the emergency.

Thesaurus

Noun

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youngness - the opposite of oldness age - how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age" youthfulness, juvenility, youth - the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person childishness, puerility - a property characteristic of a child oldness - the opposite of youngness