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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The full process will take about three to four weeks, with caretakers expecting Pesto to lose all of his youthful down by sometime in November.
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Danny Klein, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
But then life did what life does, and all that youthful bravado leaked out through the lines in his face like steam through fissures in geothermal rock.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
The full process will take about three to four weeks, with caretakers expecting Pesto to lose all of his youthful down by sometime in November.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Say goodbye to fine lines and wrinkles as this makeup’s wrinkle-filling properties work their magic, leaving you with a smooth and youthful appearance.
—Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Youthful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/youthful. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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