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Youthful vs Youth - What's the difference?

youthful | youth | Derived terms |

Youth is a derived term of youthful.



As an adjective youthful

is young or seeming young.

As a noun youth is

the quality or state of being young.

youthful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Young or seeming young.
  • Characteristic of young people.
  • Synonyms

    * lively * sprightly * spry * young

    Derived terms

    * youthful river

    youth

    English

    (wikipedia youth)

    Noun

  • (lb) The quality or state of being young.
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  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
  • (lb) The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
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  • , volume=101, issue=1, page=62, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Father of Fractals , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}
  • (lb) A young person.
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  • (lb) A young man.
  • *1919 ,
  • *:and then a youth appeared—no one quite knew where from or to whom he belonged—but he settled down with them in a happy-go-lucky way, and they all lived together.
  • (lb) (used in plural form ) Young persons, collectively.
  • Synonyms

    * (quality or state of being young) juvenility, youthfulness * (young person) adolescent, child, kid, lad, teen, teenager, youngster * (young man) boy, young man * adolescents, kids, teenagers, teens, young people, youngsters

    Antonyms

    * (quality or state of being young) age, dotage, old age, senility * (young person) adult, grown-up

    Derived terms

    * fountain of youth * middle youth, mid youth * yoof * youth club * youth culture * youthful * youth hostel * youth worker * youthly * youthy

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