awkward age
Between child, adult
The awkward age is adolescence—that stretch of years when bodies change faster than social skills can keep up, when young people are no longer children but not yet adults.
The phrase captures the self-consciousness, physical clumsiness, and social uncertainty typical of the teenage years: She's at that awkward age where everything embarrasses her.
- immaturityUndeveloped condition
- teenage yearsAges thirteen to nineteen
- teensAges thirteen through nineteen
- youthfulnessState of being young
- growing painsDifficulties during early development
adolescence · teenager · growing up · identity crisis · self-consciousness · voice cracking · mood swings · braces · pubescence · insecurity · first crush · self-discovery · body image · growth spurt · youngster · child · puberty · high school drama
- adolescencepuberty, teenager, growing up, teen, adolescent
- youth sayingsfountain of youth, salad days, spring chicken, young at heart, forever young
awkward ageprime of life
Period of peak vigor
maturity · adulthood · golden years · middle age · childhood innocence
awkward, age, awkwardly, awkwardness, ages, aged, ageing, ageless