young

Adjective

• not tried or tested by experience
  • unseasoned artillery volunteers
    
  • still untested in battle
    
  • an illustrator untried in mural painting
    
  • a young hand at plowing
    

• being in its early stage
  • a young industry
    
  • the day is still young
    

• suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
  • he is young for his age
    

• (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity
  • new potatoes
    
  • young corn
    

• (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth
  • young people
    

Noun

• young people collectively
  • rock music appeals to the young
    
  • youth everywhere rises in revolt
    

• 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)

• United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955)

• English poet (1683-1765)

• United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959)

• 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)

• United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

• United States film and television actress (1913-2000)

• any immature animal

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  unseasoned , untested , untried , youthful , vernal , new , immature , youth , Young , Brigham Young , Cy Young , Danton True Young , Edward Young , Pres Young , Lester Willis Young , Thomas Young , Whitney Young , Whitney Moore Young Jr. , Loretta Young , offspring
• Antonyms: 
  old , aged , elderly