🇬🇧 Underage meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Underage means you are still too young to be allowed to do certain things by law or by rules. For example, you might be underage for driving a car, voting, or watching a scary movie at the cinema. When you are underage, adults are supposed to protect you and say “not yet” to keep you safe until you are old enough.

Because I’m underage, I can’t drive the car, but I’m apparently old enough to take out the trash.

I’m underage for getting my ears pierced, so I wear stickers and pretend I’m a famous rock star.

I’m underage for scary movies, but my imagination already shows me horror films when I hear creaky doors.

The underage wizard wasn’t allowed to cast big spells, so he just magically untangled his shoelaces.

The underage ghost had to haunt the kids’ room only, because the attic was for older ghosts.

A boy held out his ID at the club; the bouncer frowned. "Underage," he said, tapping the card. He pointed to a sign: "Underage." A woman behind him whispered, "Underage kids can't be here." The boy sighed, underage cheeks burning, stepped back. Outside, his friend smiled and said, "That's fine — being underage, we go home and plan something safer."

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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