Juvenile vs Senile - What's the difference?
juvenile | senile |
a prepubescent child
a person not legally of age, or who is younger than may be charged with an offence
an animal that is not sexually mature
an actor playing a child's role
Of, or relating to old age.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, title= (often, offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.
As adjectives the difference between juvenile and senile
is that juvenile is young; not fully developed while senile is of, or relating to old age.As a noun juvenile
is a prepubescent child.juvenile
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(en noun)Derived terms
* (not of legal age) juvenile court, juvenile delinquent, juvenile detention center, juvenile hallsenile
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(en adjective)Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
