postadolescent

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

post- +‎ adolescent.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

postadolescent (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a period of adolescence.
    • 2007 June 17, Michael Goldfarb, “Where the Arts Were Too Liberal”, in New York Times[1]:
      The let’s-try-anything, free-thinking society of 1968 evolved into a catastrophic blend of legitimate paranoia (Nixon did keep enemies lists, and the F.B.I. did infiltrate campuses) and postadolescent melodrama.

Noun[edit]

postadolescent (plural postadolescents)

  1. One who has grown out of adolescence.