Found 5 hits - Term: underage, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
underage \un"derage`\ u^n"d~eri^j, a.
shortage or deficiency in amount; shortfall. obs.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
under-age \un"der-age`\, a.
1. not having arrived at adult age; hence, incapable legally
of performing certain acts restricted to adults.
pjc
2. not having arrived at adult age, or at years of
discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish.
obs.
1913 webster
i myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a
great deal of under-age protestation. --j. webster.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dependent \depend"ent\, a. l. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. see depend, and cf. dependant.
1. hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
1913 webster
2. relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon;
as, dependent on god; dependent upon friends. opposite of
independent. narrower terms: interdependent,
mutualist, mutually beneficial; parasitic, parasitical,
leechlike, bloodsucking; subordinate; underage;
myrmecophilous; symbiotic also see: unfree.
1913 webster
england, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --macaulay.
1913 webster
3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. opposite of
unconditional.
syn: qualified.
wordnet 1.5
4. addicted to drugs.
syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
wordnet 1.5
dependent covenant or dependent contract law, one not
binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
dependent variable math., a varying quantity whose
changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
changes in another variable, which is called the
independent variable.
1913 webster
see also:
depend dependant independent interdependent, mutualist, mutually beneficial parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking subordinate
underage myrmecophilous symbiotic unfree unconditional
dependent covenant dependent contract dependent variable independent variable
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
underage
adj 1: not of legal age; "minor children" syn: minor, nonaged
ant: major
2: dependent by virtue of youth
see also:
minor nonaged major
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
37 moby thesaurus words for "underage":
budding, callow, defalcation, deficiency, deficit, dewy, green,
growing, immature, impubic, inadequacy, inexperienced, ingenuous,
innocent, insufficiency, intact, juicy, lack, minor, naive,
new-fledged, raw, ripening, sappy, scantiness, shortage, tender,
unadult, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed,
unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal
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