2021-04-01 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด Y - young & youthful

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2021-04-01

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด Y - young & youthful

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ออกเสียง young = ‘YUHNG’

ออกเสียง youthful = ‘YOOTH-fuhl’

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SYNONYM STUDY FOR YOUNG

Young, youthful, juvenile

all refer to lack of age.

Young is the general word for that

which is undeveloped, immature, and in process of growth:

a young colt, child; young shoots of wheat.

Youthful has connotations suggesting

the favorable characteristicsof youth,

such as vigor, enthusiasm, and hopefulness:

youthful sports, energy, outlook.

Juvenile may suggest less desirable characteristics,

such as childishness, petulance, idleness, selfishness, or heedlessness (juvenile behavior),

or it may refer simply to the years, up to the later teens,

before legal responsibility:

juvenile delinquency; juvenile court; juvenile books.

Dictionary of Problem Words in English

Young & youthful

As adjectives, both young and youthful

refer to being in an early period of life or growth

(a young person, a youthful person).

In this sense, young more often than youthful is

applied to nonhuman object:

“a young tree” rather than “a youthful tree.”

Somewhat more effectivelythan young,

youthful suggests favorably aspects of youth

such as vigor, strength, liveliness, and hopefulness:

“She has a healthy, youthfulattitude toward life.”

“She is not young in years, but somehow she kept her youthful figure.”

A wise person has said that although no one can remain young

always, everyone wishes

to stay youthful.