without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights"
used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a freshman senator"; "freshman year in high school or college"
a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
in the state of development between puberty and maturity; "adolescent boys and girls"
displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"