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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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