1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of youth
youthful inexperience
2
: being young and not yet mature
3
: marked by or possessing youth
youthful dancers
4
: having the vitality or freshness of youth : vigorous
my youthful grandparents
5
: having accomplished or undergone little erosion
youthful mountains
youthfulness
noun
Examples of youthful in a Sentence
My grandparents are still very youthful.
it's still a youthful nation with a lot of promise and potential
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There are speed bumps to discourage the often youthful drivers testing the limits of their first cars.
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As Cher approaches her seventh decade in the industry, her preternaturally youthful features have resolved themselves, whether through good fortune or surgical intervention, into a perpetually amused pout.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
The birth of Spencer’s The first generation of shoppers to get hooked on Spencer’s weren’t the mallrat slackers of Gen-X or even the forever youthful Baby Boomers.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 6 Dec. 2024
There are speed bumps to discourage the often youthful drivers testing the limits of their first cars.
—William Roberson, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
As Cher approaches her seventh decade in the industry, her preternaturally youthful features have resolved themselves, whether through good fortune or surgical intervention, into a perpetually amused pout.
—Alexander Larman, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Youthful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/youthful. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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