juvenile

«juvenile» in Mova's school dictionary: a young animal or person, not yet an adult — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (juvenile); noun (a juvenile, juveniles)

meaning for a pupil

1) A juvenile is a young animal or person, not yet an adult. tree →

2) Juvenile means to do with young people, as in a juvenile court. tree →

3) Juvenile also means childish or silly in a way that seems immature (said about grown-ups or older children). tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, juvenile animals often look different from adults (juvenile gulls are brown). In law, a juvenile is someone under the adult age. Calling behaviour «juvenile» is a criticism.

examples

• The juvenile eagle had brown feathers. tree →
• Juveniles go to a special court. tree →
• Stop that — it's so juvenile! tree →
• The aquarium had juvenile sharks. tree →
• Juvenile fish hide in the seaweed. tree →
• Pulling faces at the teacher was juvenile. tree →

note

Pronounced «JOO-vuh-nile». Formal or scientific word for «young».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «juvenile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.