What is "preadolescent"

Usage examples of "preadolescent".

These techniques can be disorganizing to the family, particularly when the preadolescent applies his sharp mind to their perfection.

I would say the prognosis is poor unless the child, by the time he is a preadolescent, receives intensive treatment, so he can understand the source of his murderous feelings and further understand that despite his past, he can have a choice about his future.

One day, her preadolescent friend KAPERA SMYTHE appears at her airlock pleading for help.

They grew with each stroke, baby fat giving way to rangy preadolescent bodies that with another stroke bobbed with the extra flesh and hair of maturity.

Hardened criminals were easier to apprehend than one preadolescent child who looked nearly half her actual age.

His cheeks were boy-smooth, deep into the lean and cool of preadolescent limbo.

They called preadolescent dorks who posted stupid things on BBSes, giving real hackers a bad name.

Her breasts kept her from looking like a preadolescent, but only barely.

As they slowed and he saw their pudgy faces, he knew they were preadolescent cubs.

In his preadolescent fashion he was aware that he was responsible for some of that pain, so different from the usual childish torments he and Alex exchanged.

All of them wore running shoes that made their feet look enormous and reduced their preadolescent legs to sticks.

Fortunately for the otter the preadolescent ogres were not possessed of sufficient intellectual capacity to comprehend his suggestion or the implications behind it.

Tach removed his hat and waved it languidly before his face as he looked at the room filled full of rushing people, including-Good God, a three-foot-high tyrannosaur who had just turned into a naked preadolescent boy.

She had an aluminium bat in her hands and she was knocking fly balls and grounders to half a dozen preadolescent boys, arrayed throughout the infield and outfield, playing a game called five hundred.

Thus, while children normally develop the ability of introspection by the age of eight, their later indoctrination into the principles of scientific materialism may actually cause them to revert to a preadolescent state of psychological immaturity.