young

/jˈʌŋ/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

adjective

1. (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
   “young people”
2. (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
   “new potatoes”
3. suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
   “he is young for his age”
4. being in its early stage
   “a young industry”
5. not tried or tested by experience
   “unseasoned artillery volunteers”

noun

1. any immature animal
2. United States film and television actress (1913-2000)
3. United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
4. British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
5. United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)
6. English poet (1683-1765)
7. United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)
8. United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
9. young people collectively
   “rock music appeals to the young”

Synonyms for young

• immature
• one-year-old
• two-year-old
• three-year-old
• four-year-old
• five-year-old
• adolescent
• infantile
• boyish
• childlike
• early
• girlish
• junior
• little
• newborn
• new
• youthful
• vernal
• young
• unseasoned
• untested
• untried
• inexperienced
• offspring
• Loretta Young
• Whitney Young
• Whitney Moore Young Jr.
• Thomas Young
• Pres Young
• Lester Willis Young
• Edward Young
• Cy Young
• Danton True Young
• Brigham Young
• youth

Antonyms of young

• old
• aged

Words that rhyme with young

• tongue
• bung
• dung
• rung
• unsung
• lung
• pung
• strung
• stung
• tung
• among
• chung
• clung
• drepung
• flung
• fung
• gung
• hsiung
• hung
• junge
• kung
• kyung
• mcclung
• myung
• nueyung
• overhung
• phung
• samsung
• slung
• sprung