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Antonyms for half-grown
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : grohn |
Phonetic Transcription : groʊn |
Definition of half-grown
Origin :- late 14c., past participle adjective from grow (v.).
- As in young : adj immature
- As in immature : adj young, inexperienced
- Who cared what three half-grown boys did, while the elders were busy with their Mysteries.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- This one he's givin' me ain't a whole dog, you see; just a half-grown pup.
- Extract from : « The Woman-Haters » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It looked like a half-grown bedstead, the colour very pretty.
- Extract from : « From Edinburgh to India & Burmah » by William G. Burn Murdoch
- Such things cannot be told to a child, nor to a half-grown girl.
- Extract from : « Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands » by Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson
- In all there were some thirty or forty men, with a proportion of half-grown boys.
- Extract from : « The Quadroon » by Mayne Reid
- It is only in the case of young or half-grown specimens where a mistake of this kind is likely to be made.
- Extract from : « Bruin » by Mayne Reid
- A half-grown cub rushed in and knocked over Japhet and Higgs.
- Extract from : « Queen Sheba's Ring » by H. Rider Haggard
- A rhino cow and half-grown calf were discovered on a distant hillside.
- Extract from : « In Africa » by John T. McCutcheon
- This was a male, about half-grown, being scarcely three feet high.
- Extract from : « The Malay Archipelago » by Alfred Russell Wallace
- Glen came from the country, a half-grown puppy, to live in Oakland.
- Extract from : « Revolution and Other Essays » by Jack London
Synonyms for half-grown
- adolescent
- baby
- babyish
- blooming
- blossoming
- boyish
- boylike
- budding
- burgeoning
- callow
- childish
- childlike
- crude
- developing
- early
- fledgling
- fresh
- girlish
- girllike
- green
- growing
- half-grown
- ignorant
- imperfect
- inexperienced
- infant
- infantile
- infantine
- inferior
- jejune
- junior
- juvenile
- kid
- kidstuff
- little
- modern
- new
- newborn
- newish
- not aged
- premature
- pubescent
- puerile
- punk
- raw
- recent
- sophomoric
- tender
- tenderfoot
- underdeveloped
- undergrown
- undeveloped
- undisciplined
- unfinished
- unfledged
- unformed
- unlearned
- unpracticed
- unripe
- unseasonable
- unseasoned
- unsophisticated
- untimely
- untried
- unversed
- vernal
- wet behind ears
- youthful
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