Old and Pubescent

Old

Old adjective - Being of advanced years and especially past middle age.

Pubescent is an antonym for old.

Nearby Words: oldie, olden, oldish

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.

Old is an antonym for pubescent in topics: immature, childish, new.

Nearby Word: pubescence

Both words in one sentence

  • Vocal Dissonance Nitori's voice actor in Wandering Son has a scratchy, pubescent voice as she was voiced by a thirteen year old.
  • Screw Yourself 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.
  • Literature / Dark Lord of Derkholm 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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