younger generation
Those following us
The younger generation refers to people who are noticeably younger than the speaker or a reference group—typically those coming of age or recently adult.
The phrase often carries implicit comparison: The younger generation doesn't remember life before smartphones.
It can express hope, concern, or mild exasperation depending on context.
What counts as "younger" shifts with the speaker's age; every generation eventually finds itself complaining about the one behind it.
- youthState of being immature
- teenagersPeople aged thirteen to nineteen
- millennialsThose born 1981-1996
- Gen ZPost-millennial demographic cohort
- kidsYoung human offspring
fresh faced · bright eyed · adolescents · coming of age · twentysomethings · fresh · rebellious · idealistic · TikTok · smartphones · screen time · future · naive · energetic · hopeful · inexperienced · digital natives · students
younger generationolder generation
Those born earlier
elderly · seniors · old folks · elders · older people
younger generationpredecessors
Those coming before another
forebears · ancestors · forefathers · progenitors · antecedents
younger generationold guard
Conservative faction within organization
traditionalists · establishment · old-timers · conservatives · baby boomers
young, younger, youngest, youngster, youngsters, youthful, youthfulness, generate, generation