Young vs. Younger
By Muazma Batool — Updated on November 25, 2022
Difference Between Young and Younger
Young vs. Younger Definitions
◉Young
Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life
He is young for his age.
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◉Younger
Relating to, typical of, or suggestive of youth or early life
He is young for his age.
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◉Young
(Geology) Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
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◉Younger
(Geology) Being of an early stage in a geologic cycle. Used of bodies of water and land formations.
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◉Young
Young persons considered as a group; youth
entertainment for the young.
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◉Younger
Young persons considered as a group; youth
entertainment for the young.
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◉Young
In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.
a lamb is a young sheep;
these picture books are for young readers
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◉Young
At an early stage of existence or development; having recently come into existence.
the age of space travel is still young;
a young business
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◉Young
(Not) advanced in age; (far towards or) at a specified stage of existence or age.
How young is your dog?
Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.
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◉Younger
used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father;
John Junior
John Smith, Jr.
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◉Young
Youthful; having the look or qualities of a young person.
My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.
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◉Young
Of or belonging to the early part of life.
The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.
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◉Young
(obsolete) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
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◉Young
(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.
The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.
The lion's young are curious about the world around them.
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◉Young
Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; - said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
For he so young and tender was of age.
"Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever.
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◉Young
Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
While the fears of the people were young.
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◉Young
Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.
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◉Young
The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosedTheir callow young.
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◉Young
British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829)
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United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877)
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◉Young
young people collectively;
rock music appeals to the young
youth everywhere rises in revolt
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◉Young
(used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth;
young people
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◉Young
(of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
new potatoes
young corn
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