youths
Kids growing up
Youths is the plural of youth, meaning young people collectively or multiple individual young persons.
The word can sound formal or slightly old-fashioned: Three youths were arrested outside the stadium.
News reports often use youths when describing young people involved in crime or unrest, giving it a faintly clinical or distancing tone.
People aged thirteen to nineteen
- juvenilesUnderage individuals
- minorsThose below legal age
- teensAges thirteen through nineteen
- pubertySexual development stage
teenage · peers · generation · awkwardness · curfew · grounded · allowance · detention
Increase in size
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- pubertySexual development stage
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- adolescenceTeenage developmental stage
formative · impressionable · malleable · blossoming · emerging · transitioning · evolving · maturing
Young human beings
- youngstersPeople not yet adult
- kidsYoung human offspring
- offspringBiological descendants produced
- progenyOne's biological descendants
descendants · juniors · whippersnappers · fledglings · cubs · saplings · seedlings · newbies
Full of life, intensity
- dynamicActive and changing
- livelyAnimated and energetic
- vigorousHaving great physical energy
- exuberantIntensely lively and cheerful
spirited · active · vivacious · animated · enthusiastic · restless · energetic · boisterous
Desire for achievement
- aspirationsDeeply held goals
- potentialLatent capacity for development
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
- opportunitiesFavorable times to act
prospects · idealism · hope · promise · possibility · optimism · vision · tomorrow
teenagers
People aged thirteen to nineteen
puberty · teenage · peers · generation · awkwardness · curfew · grounded · allowance · detention · homework
growth
Increase in size
- maturationProcess of becoming complete
- pubertySexual development stage
- developmentProgress toward maturity
adolescence · formative · impressionable · malleable · blossoming · emerging · transitioning · evolving · maturing · sprouting
children
Young human beings
- youngstersPeople not yet adult
- kidsYoung human offspring
- offspringBiological descendants produced
progeny · descendants · juniors · whippersnappers · fledglings · cubs · saplings · seedlings · newbies · greenhorns
vibrant
Full of life, intensity
exuberant · spirited · active · vivacious · animated · enthusiastic · restless · energetic · boisterous · playful
ambition
Desire for achievement
- aspirationsDeeply held goals
- potentialLatent capacity for development
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
opportunities · prospects · idealism · hope · promise · possibility · optimism · vision · tomorrow · inheritance
gang
Organized criminal group
band · mob · clique · squad · cohort · peers · delinquents · hooligans · ruffians · troublemakers
- young adultstwenty-somethings, twentysomethings, graduates, undergrads, university students
youthselders
Senior community members
seniors · elderly · old people · pensioners · old-timers
- youth centersCommunity spaces for adolescents
- youth leadersGuides for young people
- fountain of youthRestorative source of youthfulness
- youth workersProfessionals supporting adolescents
- youth groupOrganization serving adolescents
- eternal youthPermanent freedom from aging