underage

English

Etymology 1

under +‎ age

Alternative forms

• under age

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŭn-dər-ājʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌʌndəɹˈeɪdʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Adjective

underage (not comparable)

1. Below the legal age for some activity, such as drinking or having sex.
2. Not yet a legal adult; still a minor.

Synonyms

• (not legal): minor (noun)

Antonyms

• of age
• overage

Translations

below legal age

• Arabic: قَاصِر (ar) (qāṣir)
• Catalan: menor d'edat (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 未成年 (zh) (wèichéngnián)

• Danish: mindreårig
• Esperanto: neplenaĝa
• Finnish: alaikäinen (fi)
• French: mineur (fr)
• German: minderjährig (de)
• Hindi: नाबालिग (hi) (nābālig)
• Irish: faoi aois
• Italian: minorenne (it)
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• Japanese: 未成年 (ja) (みせいねん, miseinen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mindreårig (no)

  Nynorsk: mindreårig

• Portuguese: menor (pt)
• Russian: несовершенноле́тний (ru) (nesoveršennolétnij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: малољетан

  Roman: maloljetan (sh)

• Swedish: minderårig (sv)
• Welsh: tan oed

still a minor

• Arabic: قَاصِر (ar) (qāṣir)
• Danish: mindreårig
• Dutch: minderjarig (nl)
• Finnish: alaikäinen (fi)
• French: mineur (fr) m
• German: minderjährig (de)
• Hindi: नाबालिग (hi) (nābālig)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: minore (it) m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mindreårig (no)

  Nynorsk: mindreårig

• Russian: несовершенноле́тний (ru) (nesoveršennolétnij), малоле́тний (ru) (malolétnij)

Etymology 2

under +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŭnʹ-dər-ĭj, IPA^(key): /ˈʌndəɹɪdʒ/

Noun

underage (plural underages)

1. A deficit or shortfall in funds, inventory, or capacity.

Related terms

• overage

Translations

deficit in funds — see deficit

Anagrams

• Gendreau, dungaree, unagreed, ungeared