Boy
Boy noun - A male person who has not yet reached adulthood.
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Synonyms for Boy
Pubescent and boy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pubescent" instead a noun "Boy".
Pubescent
Pubescent adjective - (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature.
Nearby Word: pubescence
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Both words in one sentence
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It is difficult to discern a pre-pubescent girl with short hair from a boy, making her a red herring for the missing Will.
Source: Series / Stranger Things -
This made Norma a Spoiled Brat and left Charlie mostly confused and afraid of his mother who would beat him for perfectly natural things like having an erection as would any pubescent teen boy.
- Tao Nozomu starts out as a barely pubescent middle school boy whose interest in crossdressing somehow triggers an inexplicable Gender Bender.
Source: Recursive Crossdressing
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Pubescent and Boy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/boy/pubescent
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