juvenescent

American  

[joo-vuh-nes-uhnt] / ˌdʒu vəˈnɛs ənt /

adjective

1. being or becoming youthful; young.

2. young in appearance.

3. having the power to make young or youthful.

   a juvenescent elixir.

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Other Word Forms

• juvenescence noun

Etymology

Origin of juvenescent

1815–25; < Latin juvenēscent- (stem of juvenēscēns, present participle of juvenēscere to become youthful), equivalent to juven- young ( juvenile ) + -ēscent- -escent

Example Sentences

As I say, my friend wasn't juvenescent, but looking around me at those who were older, I felt my sympathy for them contracting.

From BBC

Certainly, for time out of mind an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

From BBC

Besides, what is the use of wigs and hair-dye and padding, and what not coloring and enamelling, and other juvenescent procedures of the feminine arcana, if annual proclamation of impertinent dates and facts is to be made?

From Project Gutenberg

His song My Generation, with its juvenescent proclamation, "Hope I die before I get old," had become the anthem of the Woodstock era.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among this season's top drawers: the Stan Kenton and Glenn Miller bands, Xavier Cugat, Charlie Spivak and Gene Krupa, along with such juvenescent goldbugs as Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Paul Anka, and the comparable Fabian, whose singing debut was made at the pier's Kiddies Theater a short time ago, when he was twelve.

From Time Magazine Archive