Pubescent vs. Adolescent — What's the Difference?

Reaching or having recently reached puberty.

Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.

Covered with short hairs or soft down.

Characteristic of adolescence; immature

At or just after the age of puberty.

A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity.

Covered with down or fine hairs.

Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.

An individual who is going through puberty.

A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.

Arrived at puberty.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants.

A youth.

(of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature;

A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity

Covered with fine soft hairs or down;

Relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent;

Being of the age 13 through 19;

Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity;

In the state of development between puberty and maturity;