1
: of, relating to, or characteristic of youth
youthful inexperience
2
: being young and not yet mature
3
: marked by or possessing youth
youthful dancers
4
: having the vitality or freshness of youth : vigorous
my youthful grandparents
5
: having accomplished or undergone little erosion
youthful mountains
youthfulness
noun
Examples of youthful in a Sentence
My grandparents are still very youthful.
it's still a youthful nation with a lot of promise and potential
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Callum McLennan, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
In fact, the opening two gambits were superb as Federer had to fend off a youthful Nick Kyrgios to clinch the inaugural 2017 version, while Team World pushed Europe all the way in Chicago a year later.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Birkin projected just this sort of youthful insouciance.
—Anahid Nersessian, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Shane Bieber is the youthful presence at 30.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Youthful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/youthful. Accessed 24 Sep. 2025.
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