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adolescently adverb sometimes disapprovinguk /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt.li/ us /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt.li/ in a way that is typical of a young person who is developing into an adult: He still suffered from an adolescently painful shyness. I found her adolescently confrontational way of responding to even the simplest of requests very tiring. He still clings on to some adolescently black-and-white political opinions. My adolescently abrupt "Just because" reply was not well received by the teacher. There was something adolescently awkward about her in the way she held herself and spoke to people. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Describing people who are young adolescent at your mother's kneeidiom be knee-high to a grasshopperidiom flower fresh-faced freshness knee-high little mother pre-puberty prepubescent pubescent slip tender tweener underage ya yoof young young adult |