young

The word “young” has 1 syllable: young

It's pronounced as /jʌŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for young?

In the thesaurus, “young” has 91 synonyms and 44 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for young along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for young

  • adolescent
  • babies
  • baby
  • babyish
  • blooming
  • blossoming
  • boyish
  • boylike
  • brood
  • budding
  • burgeoning
  • callow
  • child
  • childish
  • childlike
  • crude
  • developing
  • early
  • embryonic
  • emergent
  • ephebic
  • family
  • fledgling
  • flourishing
  • flowering
  • fresh
  • fruit
  • get
  • girlish
  • girllike
  • green
  • growing
  • half-grown
  • hatch
  • ignorant
  • immature
  • inexperienced
  • infant
  • infantile
  • infantine
  • infants
  • inferior
  • issue
  • junior
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • kin
  • lineage
  • litter
  • little
  • little ones
  • minor
  • modern
  • new
  • newborn
  • newish
  • not aged
  • offspring
  • posterity
  • preteen
  • progeny
  • pubescent
  • puerile
  • punk
  • raw
  • recent
  • scion
  • seed
  • spawn
  • stock
  • subadult
  • teenage
  • teenaged
  • tender
  • tenderfoot
  • underage
  • undeveloped
  • undisciplined
  • unfinished
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unlearned
  • unpracticed
  • unripe
  • unripened
  • unseasoned
  • untried
  • unversed
  • vernal
  • youngish
  • youthful

Antonyms for young

  • adult
  • aged
  • ageing
  • aging
  • ancestor
  • ancient
  • anile
  • antecedent
  • decrepit
  • doddering
  • elderly
  • experienced
  • father
  • forbear
  • forebear
  • forebearer
  • forefather
  • full-blown
  • full-fledged
  • geriatric
  • golden
  • grandfather
  • grown-up
  • healthy
  • long-lived
  • mature
  • matured
  • mellow
  • middle-aged
  • old
  • older
  • oldish
  • over-the-hill
  • parent
  • primogenitor
  • progenitor
  • ripe
  • ripened
  • senescent
  • senile
  • senior
  • sophisticated
  • spavined
  • tottery

Meanings of young

  • noun
    1. People who are young; young people, collectively; youth.
    2. Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal).
    3. (possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.
  • verb
    1. To become or seem to become younger.
    2. To cause to appear younger.
    3. To exhibit younging.
  • adjective
    1. In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
    2. At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
    3. (Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
    4. Junior (of two related people with the same name).
    5. (of a decade of life) Early.
    6. Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
    7. Of or belonging to the early part of life.
    8. Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.

Example Sentences

  • Young children often possess an innate curiosity about the world around them.
  • The young sapling swayed gently in the breeze, its leaves shimmering in the sunlight.
  • As a young adult, she embarked on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
  • Young love is often described as passionate and idealistic, full of hope and excitement.
  • The young athlete showed remarkable talent and dedication from an early age, earning recognition in their sport.

On this page you'll find 135 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to young, such as: adolescent, adult, aged, ageing, aging, ancestor, ancient.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

nascent

  • aborning
  • amorphous
  • antecedent
  • baby
  • babyish
  • basic
  • beginning
  • blossoming
  • budding
  • burgeoning
  • bursting forth
  • callow
  • childish
  • childlike
  • commencing
  • crude
  • developing
  • earliest
  • early
  • elementary
  • embryonic
  • emergent
  • first
  • fledgling
  • foremost
  • formative
  • formless
  • fresh
  • fundamental
  • germinal
  • germinating
  • green
  • growing
  • headmost
  • immature
  • imperfect
  • inaugural
  • inceptive
  • inchoate
  • inchoative
  • incipient
  • incoherent
  • infant
  • infantine
  • initial
  • initiative
  • initiatory
  • introductory
  • just begun
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • leading
  • leadoff
  • maturing
  • naive
  • newborn
  • opening
  • original
  • originating
  • pioneer
  • potential
  • preliminary
  • preparatory
  • primitive
  • promising
  • pubescent
  • puerile
  • pullulating
  • rude
  • rudimentary
  • shapeless
  • shooting up
  • sprouting
  • start
  • tender
  • undeveloped
  • unfinished
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unripe
  • unshaped
  • vegetating
  • virgin
  • weak
  • young
  • youthful

youngish

  • adolescent
  • babyish
  • blooming
  • blossoming
  • burgeoning
  • callow
  • childish
  • childlike
  • embryonic
  • emergent
  • ephebic
  • flourishing
  • flowering
  • green
  • immature
  • inexperienced
  • infantile
  • infantine
  • juvenile
  • kiddish
  • minor
  • preteen
  • puerile
  • raw
  • subadult
  • teenage
  • teenaged
  • underage
  • undeveloped
  • unfinished
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unripe
  • unripened
  • young
  • youthful

youthful

  • active
  • adolescent
  • babyish
  • blooming
  • blossoming
  • boyish
  • budding
  • buoyant
  • burgeoning
  • callow
  • childish
  • childlike
  • embryonic
  • emergent
  • enthusiastic
  • ephebic
  • flourishing
  • flowering
  • fresh
  • full of life
  • girlish
  • green
  • immature
  • inexperienced
  • infant
  • infantile
  • infantine
  • juvenile
  • keen
  • kiddish
  • minor
  • preteen
  • pubescent
  • puerile
  • raw
  • subadult
  • teenage
  • teenaged
  • tender
  • underage
  • undeveloped
  • unfinished
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unripe
  • unripened
  • vernal
  • vigorous
  • young
  • youngish

callow

  • adolescent
  • babyish
  • boyish
  • childish
  • crude
  • girlish
  • green
  • guileless
  • immature
  • inexperienced
  • infant
  • infantile
  • infantilized
  • infantine
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • jejune
  • jellybean
  • juvenescent
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • kiddish
  • low tech
  • maidenly
  • naive
  • not dry behind ears
  • puerile
  • raw
  • sophomore
  • tender
  • tenderfoot
  • unbaked
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unknowing
  • unripe
  • unripened
  • unseasoned
  • unsophisticated
  • untrained
  • untried
  • virginal
  • wet behind the ears
  • young
  • youngish
  • youthful

maidenly

  • adolescent
  • babe in woods
  • babyish
  • blameless
  • boyish
  • callow
  • celibate
  • cherry
  • childish
  • clean
  • continent
  • decent
  • exemplary
  • female
  • feminine
  • fresh
  • girlish
  • good
  • green
  • guileless
  • honest
  • immaculate
  • immature
  • inculpable
  • inexperienced
  • infantile
  • infantilized
  • infantine
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • inviolate
  • irreproachable
  • juvenescent
  • juvenile
  • kid
  • kiddish
  • ladylike
  • lily white
  • matronly
  • mature
  • modest
  • motherly
  • naive
  • puerile
  • pure as driven snow
  • raw
  • righteous
  • sinless
  • spotless
  • stainless
  • tender
  • true
  • unblemished
  • unblighted
  • uncorrupted
  • undefiled
  • unfledged
  • unformed
  • unknowing
  • unprofaned
  • unripe
  • unripened
  • unseasoned
  • unsophisticated
  • unspotted
  • unstained
  • unsullied
  • untrained
  • untried
  • upright
  • virgin
  • virginal
  • virtuous
  • wet behind ears
  • wide-eyed
  • womanish
  • womanlike
  • young
  • youngish
  • youthful

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