mid-adolescent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mid- +‎ adolescent

Adjective[edit]

mid-adolescent (comparative more mid-adolescent, superlative most mid-adolescent)

  1. being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence
    • 2007 August 9, Cintra Wilson, “A (Very Poised) Dance on the Table”, in New York Times[1]:
      The Phi store on Greene Street is a vast cool, dark space of dizzying height, an effect accentuated by smooth free-standing obsidian walls and willowy black Corinthian pillars that seem to be in a midadolescent growth spurt.