Hyphenation of adolescent

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word adolescent? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ado-les-cent

Definitions of adolescent:

1.	A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
2.	Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent Adolescent problems
3.	Being of the age 13 through 19 Teenage mothers The teen years
4.	Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity Adolescent insecurity Jejune responses to our problems Their behavior was juvenile Puerile jokes
5.	In the state of development between puberty and maturity Adolescent boys and girls

Synonyms of adolescent:

adj	time of life
adj	teen, teenage, teenaged, young, immature
adj	jejune, juvenile, puerile, immature
adj	immature
noun	stripling, teenager, juvenile, juvenile person

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.