Old
Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.
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
Both words in one sentence
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Nitori's voice actor in Wandering Son has a scratchy, pubescent voice as she was voiced by a thirteen year old.
Source: Vocal Dissonance -
Fifteen-year-old Henry finds an outlet for his pubescent sexual urges this way (and, it's implied, repeatedly) in The Time Traveler's Wife.
Source: Screw Yourself -
Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Despite his full beard, the dwarf is about twelve years old (in human terms; he's actually thirty-something) and embarrassingly pubescent.
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Pubescent and Old. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/old/pubescent
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Pubescent or Old. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/old/pubescent.
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