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mid-adolescent en · ADJ

Etymology

From mid- + adolescent.

Meanings

1. being in or pertaining to the middle of the adolescence
   • The Phi store on Greene Street is a vast cool, dark space of dizzying height, an effect accentuated by smooth free-standing obsidian walls and willowy black Corinthian pillars that seem to be in a midadolescent growth spurt. 2007 August 9, Cintra Wilson, “A (Very Poised) Dance on the Table”, in New York Times:

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