postadolescent

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ adolescent.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

postadolescent (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a period of adolescence.
    • 2007 June 17, Michael Goldfarb, “Where the Arts Were Too Liberal”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      The let’s-try-anything, free-thinking society of 1968 evolved into a catastrophic blend of legitimate paranoia (Nixon did keep enemies lists, and the F.B.I. did infiltrate campuses) and postadolescent melodrama.

Noun

postadolescent (plural postadolescents)

  1. One who has grown out of adolescence.
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