young

young
adj.
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem

I felt young again.

keep

All that exercise keeps her young.

ADVERB
extremely, fairly, very, etc.

She still looks very young.

relatively

He seemed relatively young to have so much responsibility.

enough

She looked young enough to be his daughter.

PHRASES
young at heart

He's over 70, but he's young at heart.

young for your age

He still looks young for his age.

Young is used with these nouns: ↑adolescent, ↑adult, ↑adulthood, ↑age, ↑baby, ↑boy, ↑bride, ↑chap, ↑child, ↑corn, ↑couple, ↑daughter, ↑day, ↑designer, ↑family, ↑father, ↑fellow, ↑folk, ↑fool, ↑galaxy, ↑girl, ↑goalkeeper, ↑guy, ↑infant, ↑inmate, ↑kid, ↑lad, ↑lady, ↑leaf, ↑learner, ↑lover, ↑male, ↑man, ↑manhood, ↑mistress, ↑mother, ↑mum, ↑nation, ↑novice, ↑offender, ↑people, ↑person, ↑population, ↑prospect, ↑reader, ↑recruit, ↑relative, ↑republic, ↑researcher, ↑scientist, ↑shoot, ↑skin, ↑son, ↑soprano, ↑star, ↑talent, ↑teenager, ↑thing, ↑thug, ↑tree, ↑vandal, ↑victim, ↑viewer, ↑voter, ↑widow, ↑wife, ↑wine, ↑woman, ↑writer

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