Word Meanings - YOUTHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh;
Additional info about word: YOUTHFUL
Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." Shak. "Youthful thoughts." Milton. 3. Fresh; vigorous, as in youth. After millions of millions of ages . . . still youthful and flourishing. Bentley. Syn. -- Puerile; juvenile. -- Youthful, Puerile, Juvenile. Puerile is always used in a bad sense, or at least in the sense of what is suitable to a boy only; as, puerile objections, puerile amusements, etc. Juvenile is sometimes taken in a bad sense, as when speaking of youth in contrast with manhood; as, juvenile tricks; a juvenile performance. Youthful is commonly employed in a good sense; as, youthful aspirations; or at least by way of extenuating; as, youthful indiscretions. "Some men, imagining themselves possessed with a divine fury, often fall into toys and trifles, which are only puerilities." Dryden. "Raw, juvenile writers imagine that, by pouring forth figures often, they render their compositions warm and animated." Blair. -- Youth"ful*ly, adv. -- Youth"ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." Dryden.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of YOUTHFUL)
- Juvenile
- Youthful
- young
- infantine
- boyish
- girlish
- early
- immature
- adolescent
- pubescent
- childish
- puerile
- Nascent
- rising
- green
- incipient
- embryo
- rudimental
- budding
- Puerile
- Childish
- infantile
- youthful
- nonsensical
- futile
- nugatory
- weak
- silly
- trifling
- Vernal
- Spring
- genial
- balmy
- nascent
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of YOUTHFUL)
Related words: (words related to YOUTHFUL)
- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - RIS
A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer. - SPREADINGLY
, adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton. - EMBRYO SAC
See EMBRYONIC - GENIALLY
1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson. - CHILDISHNESS
The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - ADOLESCENT
Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper. (more info) up to; ad + the inchoative olescere to grow: cf. F. adolescent. See - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - SPRINGE
A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak. - FUTILELY
In a futile manner. - SPRINGAL
An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring. - EMBRYOTOMY
The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal. - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - EMBRYON
See EMBRYO - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv. - GRISLY
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, - GRISTMILL
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - SPAGYRIST
1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit. - LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church. - METAPHORIST
One who makes metaphors. - ARTILLERIST
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. - TANTRISM
The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n. - IMPARISYLLABIC
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. - PERISTALSIS
Peristaltic contraction or action.