young

Meanings

Adjective

• In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
• At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
• (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
• Junior (of two related people with the same name).
• (of a decade of life) Early.
• Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
• Of or belonging to the early part of life.
• Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

Noun

• Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
• An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.

Verb

• To become or seem to become younger.
• To cause to appear younger.
• To exhibit younging.

Related

Similar words

• youthful, juvenile
• juvenile
• underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature

Opposite words

• old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
• aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
• senior, mature, elderly
• mature, experienced, veteran

Origin

• Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en-.