Crossword clues for youthfulness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Youthful \Youth"ful\, a.
Not yet mature or aged; young. ``Two youthful knights.''
--Dryden. Also used figuratively. ``The youthful season of the year.''
--Shak.Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. ``Warm, youthful blood.''
--Shak. ``Youthful thoughts.''
--Milton.-
Fresh; vigorous, as in youth.
After millions of millions of ages . . . still youthful and flourishing.
--Bentley.Syn: Puerile; juvenile.
Usage: Youthful, Puerile, Juvenile. Puerile is always used in a bad sense, or at least in the sense of what is suitable to a boy only; as, puerile objections, puerile amusements, etc. Juvenile is sometimes taken in a bad sense, as when speaking of youth in contrast with manhood; as, juvenile tricks; a juvenile performance. Youthful is commonly employed in a good sense; as, youthful aspirations; or at least by way of extenuating; as, youthful indiscretions. ``Some men, imagining themselves possessed with a divine fury, often fall into toys and trifles, which are only puerilities.''
--Dryden. ``Raw, juvenile writers imagine that, by pouring forth figures often, they render their compositions warm and animated.''
--Blair. [1913 Webster] -- Youth"ful*ly, adv. -- Youth"ful*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The vitality characteristic of youth.
WordNet
n. the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [syn: youth, juvenility]
Usage examples of "youthfulness".
Of course she could not deceive me, and she must have known it, nevertheless, she liked me to bear outward testimony to her youthfulness.
After writing to Gratian he had spent the week before his holiday began, in an attempt to renew the youthfulness of his appearance, which made him feel older, leaner, bonier and browner than ever.
Of course she could not deceive me, and she must have known it, nevertheless, she liked me to bear outward testimony to her youthfulness.
He waits apprehensively, marvelling anew at how she manages to maintain her youthfulness now Miranda is almost out of her teens and Ashley is preparing for his O-levels.
It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie’s sweet youthfulness.
Her manner didn’t seem an affectation of girlishness or a pathetic clinging to sex—or, if it were, a very subtle one—but rather a hungry infatuation with youthfulness, with dewiness, with freshness, so great that it influenced the very cells and electrical tensions of her body.
This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart.
Despite his youthfulness he already had qualifications and experience which many practicing pathologists would find it hard to match.
He had known Victory Smith since the day she came into Lands Command, a spanking new junior lieutenant, a lady with an unplaced name and an undisguisable youthfulness.