(superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
(superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
(superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
(n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(5) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(6) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
(7) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
(8) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(11) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(12) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(13) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(14) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(15) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
(16) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(17) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(18) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(19) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(20) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.
Youngish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat young.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wind-Cowie, Norman and Halfon are all contributors – few prominent youngish Tories are not – but the site is also respected by bloggers on the left.
(2) Although a very rare cause, a late stage of syphilis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of cerebrovascular lesions in youngish patients.
(3) Google is run by two youngish men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin , who are, in a literal sense, visionaries.
(4) It's June of last year and I'm at a party in New York when a friendly, youngish man with a beard and a beer engages me in conversation.
(5) In stark contrast to the ageing Yeltsin, who had embarrassed the heartland as a drunk, Putin was a sober, youngish leader who managed to destroy, however brutally, the Chechen insurgency, an initial step toward restoring confidence in the military and security services.
(6) At a subsequent meeting, Burgess took his guest to the Novodevichy church to introduce him to “another boyfriend”, a priest, whom Crankshaw describes as “youngish and wholly repellent – very handsome in a horrible way – and corrupt to the ears.
(7) It was writing for young men too clever for their own good, by a youngish man way, way too clever for his.
(8) A crowd had formed to see the shining-haired hacker king – youngish New Yorkers, mostly.
(9) "Then to be in the next car over with a youngish-looking foreigner seems to convey more of a human image."
(10) You have to ask why exactly these middle-class urbanites, cultured, youngish, open – as harmless as they are endearing, even at their worst – why do they provoke such sarcasm or even hatred in us?
(11) Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching.
(12) The membership is youngish, more female and less white than the Conservative parliamentary party as a whole.
(13) Stenosis of the coeliac artery by compression occurs predominantly in youngish patients and three times more frequently in women than men.
(14) Photograph: Alamy In a small bar in Minot, North Dakota, a youngish man with a short beard and a baseball cap sits down on the stool beside mine.
(15) As I had thought, the majority of the trees here were ash, youngish trunks on ancient foundations.
(16) "We have a relatively small group of youngish people who are into a culture where firearms have a great deal of importance and who have the nerve at the moment to go and use these firearms.
(17) We definitely want to win the European Cup.” How Aston Villa won the European Cup (and were then relegated five years later) Read more Xia, a youngish multi-millionaire at 39, actually attended Villa’s final home game of last season against Newcastle as a potential buyer, so he has some idea of the enormity of the task ahead.