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"
experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13