half-grown

adjective

1. not yet fully grown

Example Sentences

A few hours later pugmarks from three cats were spotted together—the mom, her half-grown son and the baby, reunited.

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Even Rumpy had maneuvered a half-grown female into combing his scruffy fur.

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But if prosperity seemed elusive, teenagers like Shiffler, known at the time as “half-grown boys,” could find manhood in another way: joining one of Philadelphia’s storied volunteer fire companies.

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“Half-grown, mischievous and irresponsible boys have been admitted to full membership in some of the companies,” despaired one newspaper.

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One legal scholar described the simplicity of Article II’s limitation, which House Managers try in vain to make seem inscrutable, in this way: “A half-grown boy reads in a newspaper that the President occupies the White House; if he would understand from that that all Ex-Presidents are in it together he would be considered a very unpromising lad.”

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Related Words

• budding 
• inexperienced 
• new 
• youthful