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YOUTHFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh
Example:
he is young for his age
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
Derivation:
youthfulness (the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person)
Context examples:
Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.
(The Icy Mountains of Pluto, NASA)
Data from the Keck Observatory validated that the dimming was indeed caused by a planet, and also helped confirm its youthful age.
(NASA's K2 Finds Newborn Exoplanet Around Young Star, NASA)
Jo went prepared to bow down and adore the mighty ones whom she had worshiped with youthful enthusiasm afar off.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Her face was like her mother's; a youthful unfurrowed likeness: the same low brow, the same high features, the same pride.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Because CX330 is in a youthful phase of its development — likely less than 1 million years old — and is still eating its surrounding disk, it must have formed near its present location in the sky.
(Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE, NASA)
Mrs. Dashwood, who could not think a man five years younger than herself, so exceedingly ancient as he appeared to the youthful fancy of her daughter, ventured to clear Mrs. Jennings from the probability of wishing to throw ridicule on his age.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
His skin, on face and body, was darker and harsher than that of his youthful antagonist, but he looked tougher and harder, an effect which was increased by the sombre colour of his stockings and breeches.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Why he had done it, what could have provoked him to such a breach of hospitality, and so suddenly turned all his partial regard for their daughter into actual ill will, was a matter which they were at least as far from divining as Catherine herself; but it did not oppress them by any means so long; and, after a due course of useless conjecture, that it was a strange business, and that he must be a very strange man, grew enough for all their indignation and wonder; though Sarah indeed still indulged in the sweets of incomprehensibility, exclaiming and conjecturing with youthful ardour.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
We shall soon improve our youthful humours.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
