Word Type

Proper Noun

Adjective

Adjective

Verb

Noun

The word "young" can be used as proper noun, adjective, adjective, verb and noun.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

aged aged mature old old senior

Capable Of

enjoy

Derived Terms

Barry-Perkins-Young syndrome Bright Young Thing County of Young Lake Young Mount Young Parish of Young River Young Shire of Young Township of Young Young America Young County Young Crater Young Island Young Lake Young Mountain Young Nick's Head Young Parish Young Point Young River Young Shire Young Sound Young Township Young symmetrizer Young tableau Young-Laplace equation Young-Madders syndrome Young-Simpson syndrome Youngian Youngshire Youngstown bright young people decades young eat one's young foo young old head on young shoulders only the good die young sweet young thing the good die young the night is young while we're young wise head on young shoulders with young years young you can't put a wise head on young shoulders you can't put an old head on young shoulders young Turk young adult young and keen young at heart young blood young boul young boy young buck young camel young donkey young earth creationism young fogey young fustic young ginger young gun young hand young head young ice young lady young man young money young moon young offender young pioneer young-earth creationism young-hearted young-ladyish young-ladyism youngish younglet younglike youngling youngly youngness youngster youth is wasted on the young youth is wasted on the young

Context

demography geology living thing nonstandard

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

age bracket age group animal animate being beast brute cohort creature fauna new

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Young & female: Young & male: beardless boyish girlish nubile unbearded

Type Of (IsA)

age group animal

Related Terms

Jeung Jung Yeung Younger Youngman Yung active callow child childish coltish immature inexperienced juvenal puerile unfledged young adulthood youngster youth

Related Terms

arizona australia born canada early experience given name growth ignorant immature indiana inexperienced junior life look morgan county new new south wales offspring part qualities saskatchewan unpracticed uruguay weak younging youth youthful

Similar Terms

adolescent boyish boylike childlike childlike childly early early five year old five-year-old four year old four-year-old girlish immature inexperienced inexperient infantile infantile junior junior little little new new newborn newborn one year old one-year-old preadolescent preadolescent preteen puppyish puppylike puppylike schoolboyish schoolboyish schoolgirlish schoolgirlish small teen teenage teenaged teenaged tender tender three year old three-year-old two year old two-year-old vernal youngish youngish youthful youthful

Synonym Network

brigham young danton true young edward young inexperienced juvenile lester willis young loretta young recent thomas young underdeveloped untested whitney moore young jr youthful

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.