Young

Adjective

 * 1) In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
 * A lamb is a young sheep.
 * These picture books are for young readers.
 * The age of space travel is still young.
 * 1) As if young; having the look or qualities of a young person.
 * My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
 * 1) Of or belonging to the early part of life.
 * 2) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
 * 1) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

Synonyms

 * immature
 * junior
 * juvenile
 * underdeveloped
 * undeveloped
 * youthful

Antonyms

 * old
 * mature
 * grown

Derived terms

 * eat one's young
 * sweet young thing
 * the night is young
 * with young
 * young adult
 * young at heart


 * young blood
 * young buck
 * young gun
 * youngish
 * young lady
 * younglet


 * younglike
 * youngling
 * youngly
 * youngness
 * youngster

Noun

 * 1) People who are young; young beings.
 * 2) The younger generation.
 * 3) Offspring.
 * The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.

Verb

 * 1)  To become or seem to become younger
 * 2)  To cause to appear younger
 * 3)  To exhibit younging
 * 1)  To exhibit younging
 * 1)  To exhibit younging

Verbs for Young
beget—; befriend—; cherish—; conceive—, defend—; devour—; fledge—; guard—; harass—; mother—; nest—; nurse—; prey upon—; protect—;  raise—;  restrain—; shield—; succor—; suckle—; teach—; wean —; —mature; —take wings; —test.

Adverbs for Young
adorably; sweetly; refreshingly; ridiculously; ecstatically; rapturously; delightfully; unsuitably; unfortunately; charmingly; appealingly; shyly; absurdly; hopelessly; extremely; wretchedly; terribly; childishly; blithely; happily; joyously; hilariously; infinitely; immortally; unbelievably; excitably; ardently; ingenuously; vividly; gloriously; splendidly; exuberantly; radiantly; blessedly.

Thesaurus
adolescent, babies, babyhood, babyish, boyhood, boyish, brood, callow, childish, childkind, childlike, children, clutch, crude, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, farrow, firsthand, fledgling, florescent, flowering, fresh, fry, get, girlhood, girlish, green, hatch, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, innocent, intact, issue, junior, juvenal, juvenescent, juvenile, kids, litter, little kids, little ones, maiden, maidenly, minor, naive, neoteric, nest, nestling, new, new generation, offspring, original, pristine, progeny, pubescent, puerile, raw, rising generation, sempervirent, small fry, sophomoric, spat, spawn, teenaged, tots, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, uninitiated, unpracticed, unripe, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unversed, vernal, virgin, virginal, young blood, young fry, young people, youngling, youth, youthful, youthlike, youthy

Etymology
geong:.

Adjective

 * Afrikaans: jong
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, حدث, شاب, صغير السن
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: gənc
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton: yaouank
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: jong; jeugdig
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ახალგაზრდა
 * German:
 * Gothic:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: juvene
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ciwan or xort
 * Sorani:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:, puer, puella, iuvenis, adolescens
 * Latvian: jauns
 * Lithuanian: jaunas
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: jove
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: mlad
 * Glagolitic:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: òg
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: млад
 * Sinhalese: තරුණ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: యువ (yuva)
 * Thai:, หนุ่ม ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: ياش
 * Vietnamese: trẻ, trẻ tuổi
 * Welsh:, ifanc
 * West Frisian:


 * Afrikaans: jonk
 * Breton: yaouank
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: jong; jeugdig
 * German:
 * Interlingua: juvene
 * Japanese: 若い (wakai)
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Portuguese: jovem
 * Russian:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans: jong
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Interlingua: de juventute


 * Korean:
 * Portuguese: de juventude
 * Swahili: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans: jong; onervare
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: jong; onervaren


 * German: ,
 * Korean: 어리다 (eorida), 어리석다 (eoriseokda)
 * Swahili: ,

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: νέος (néos)
 * Hebrew: צעיר (tsair)
 * Interlingua: juvenes
 * Japanese: 若者 (wakamono)
 * Khmer: ក្មេង
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: jaunieši
 * Lithuanian: jaunimas
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: àl, òige , òigridh
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: యువత (yuvata)
 * Turkish:


 * Basque: gaztedi
 * Dutch: ,
 * German:
 * Korean: 젊은층
 * Portuguese:


 * Scottish Gaelic: àl, òige
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: యువతరం (yuvataram)


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Interlingua: pullo
 * Japanese: 子供 (kodomo)
 * Korean:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: молодняк, молодь
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: àl
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: