1.
[syn: minor, nonaged, underage]
2. dependent by virtue of youth;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
underage \un"der*age`\ ([u^]n"d[~e]r*[i^]j), a.
Shortage or deficiency in amount; shortfall. [Obs.]
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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.]
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I myself have loved a lady, and pursued her with a
great deal of under-age protestation. --J. Webster.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. See Depend, and cf. Dependant.]
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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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.
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England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --Macaulay.
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3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of
unconditional.
Syn: qualified.
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4. addicted to drugs.
Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
underage
adj 1: not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: minor,
nonaged, underage] [ant: major]
2: dependent by virtue of youth
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