rejuvenile

English

Etymology

re- +‎ juvenile. Compare rejuvenate.

Noun

rejuvenile (plural rejuveniles)

1. (informal) An adult whose interests and activities are characteristic of those of children.
   • 2007 December 15, Tony Dokoupil, “Forty-Year-Old Virgins”, in Newsweek:

     At $15 to $30 for each action figure, re-staffing the Cobra Command center (home to G.I. Joe's arch-nemesis, Cobra Commander) isn't cheap. So what's driving this rejuvenile movement? Marketing, mostly.

Quotations

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Synonyms

• adultescent
• kidult