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adultadjective
Of a human or animal, fully grown.
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adultadjective
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X-rated, XXXX, obscene, dirty, blue, XXX, pornographic, lewd
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adult, grownupnoun
a fully developed person from maturity onward
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grownupAntonyms:
juvenile person, juvenile, immature, unsexy -
adultadjective
any mature animal
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grownupAntonyms:
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adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownupadjective
(of animals) fully developed
«an adult animal»; «a grown woman»
Synonyms:
bountiful, magnanimous, full-grown, prominent, big, vainglorious, cock-a-hoop, braggy, heavy(p), giving, grownup, grown, large(p), enceinte, bounteous, liberal, self-aggrandizing, swelled, handsome, fully grown, braggart(a), with child(p), bighearted, expectant, heavy(a), great(p), large, bragging(a), bad, freehanded, pornographic, big(a), self-aggrandising, boastful, openhanded, gravid, big(p), crowingAntonyms:
juvenile person, juvenile, immature, unsexy -
pornographic, adultadjective
designed to arouse lust
«pornographic films and magazines»; «adult movies»
Synonyms:
grownup, pornographic, fully grown, grown, full-grown, bigAntonyms:
juvenile, juvenile person, unsexy, immature
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Sarah Longmore:
It’s been at least 20 years since I have had to pull back to this extent, this is a new and humbling experience for me as an adult.
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Elon Musk:
Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life
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Anthony Fauci:
There are only individual case reports of significant neurological damage to people not just the fetuses but an adult that would get infected. Things that they call meningoencephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain and the covering around the brain, spinal cord damage due to what we call myelitis, so far they look unusual, but at least we’ve seen them and that’s concerning.
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Lenore Skenazy:
If you live in a culture that says you can’t let your kids get off the bus without an adult there to take him home, or we’ll arrest you for letting your kids walk home from the park, how can you do anything other than spend more time with them than you otherwise care to ?
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Edith Ann:
Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn’t come easy to us.
Translations for adult
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- راشد, بالغArabic
- даро́слыBelarusian
- за възрастни, възрастен, пълнолетенBulgarian
- adultCatalan, Valencian
- dospělýCzech
- voksenDanish
- erwachsen, Erwachsener, ErwachseneGerman
- ενήλικαςGreek
- adulto, adultaSpanish
- بزرگسالPersian
- aikuinenFinnish
- adulteFrench
- מבוגרת, מבוגרHebrew
- वयस्कHindi
- felnőttHungarian
- հասուն, չափահաս, մեծահասակArmenian
- dewasaIndonesian
- adultoIdo
- fullorðinnIcelandic
- adulta, adultoItalian
- 大人, 成人Japanese
- ವಯಸ್ಕKannada
- 成人, 다 자란, 어른, 성인, 성인의Korean
- adultusLatin
- ຜູ້ໃຫ່ຍLao
- pieaugušais, pieaudzisLatvian
- pakeke, kātuaMāori
- volwasseneDutch
- voksenNorwegian
- ପ୍ରାପ୍ତବୟସ୍କOriya
- dorosła, dorosłyPolish
- adultoPortuguese
- adultă, adultRomanian
- для взрослых, взро́слыйRussian
- punoljetstvo, одрастао, пунолетан, odrastao, punoletan, пунољетствоSerbo-Croatian
- වැඩිහිටියාSinhala, Sinhalese
- dospelýSlovak
- odraselSlovene
- vuxen, vuxen-Swedish
- mtu mzimaSwahili
- வயது வந்தோர்Tamil
- వయోజనTelugu
- ผู้ใหญ่Thai
- ergin, yetişkinTurkish
- доро́слийUkrainian
- بالغUrdu
- người lớnVietnamese
- 成人Chinese
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aged, at a high peak, big, completed, cultured, en.synonym.one, cured, developed, evolved, experienced, full-fledged, full-grown, grown, grown-up, intelligent, mature, matured, mellowed, middle-aged, old, perfected, prime, ripe, ripened, sedate, sensible, en.synonym.one, sophisticated, thoughtful, well-bred, citizen, dame, gentleman, grown-up, grownup, en.synonym.one, lady, man, matron, woman, fully grown, pornographic.
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How to use adults in a sentence
Many adults, it is said, hardly have a rudiment of this feeling, pairing the most fiercely antagonistic tints.
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Many adults assume that a child can look at a landscape as they look at it, taking in the whole picturesque effect.
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Children, like uneducated adults, have been known to take a spectacle on the stage of a theatre too seriously.
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There are sentimental children, as there are sentimental adults, who seem never happier than when the tears are ready to start.
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In Africa the ova, and even adults, of Distoma hmatobium are common, accompanying «Egyptian hematuria.»
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Nine lusty-lunged adults in that one room prohibited confidential speech.
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What is another word for Adults?
41 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˈadʌlts], [ ˈadʌlts], [ ˈa_d_ʌ_l_t_s]
Table of Contents
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n.
• adults (noun)
- elders,
- men,
- women,
- grown ups.
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Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:
- manpower,
- fully grown,
- full-grown,
- work force,
- major league,
- hands,
- workforce,
- big,
- pornographic,
- big league,
- grownup,
- grown.
• Other relevant words (noun):
- patricians,
- Characters,
- Ladies,
- givings,
- masculines,
- moderates,
- adult,
- matures,
- Adultness,
- seniors,
- hosts,
- grownups,
- crowings,
- conservatives,
- pacifists,
- disarmers,
- matches,
- eccentrics,
- majors,
- naughties,
- LIBERALS,
- militarists,
- homebodies,
- BADS,
- oldsters.
How to use «Adults» in context?
The word «adult» has both a legal and a cultural definition. In law, an adult is someone over the age of 18. In culture, an adult is someone who is considered to be legally and emotionally responsible for themselves. This definition can vary from culture to culture, but at its core, the adult is someone who can take care of themselves and make informed decisions.
The adult world can be a complex and challenging place. It can be full of new opportunities and challenges, but also full of risks and uncertainties.
Paraphrases for Adults:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
adult.
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Noun, plural
grownups, grown-ups.
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Verb, past tense
adult.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
Persons.
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Noun, plural
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, plural
adultes.
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Noun, plural
men, women, Caregivers, adultes.
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Noun, singular or mass
adulthood.
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Proper noun, plural
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Independent
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Cardinal number
18.
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Proper noun, singular
health.
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Noun, plural
age, aged, criminal, cultural, days, folks, humans, leaders, majors, minors, ordinary, people, personnel, physical, physics, relevant, species, statistics, teens, work, years, young, youth, Areas, Children, Facilities, Fishes, Lives, Moths, Opportunities, S, Youths, Achievements, Adolescents, Animals, Couples, Males, Operators, Parents, Patients, Populations, Programs, Relatives, Respondents, skills, levels, citizens, inmates, elders, deaths, powers, establishments, authors, courses, conductors, juveniles, teenagers, ages, influences, weeks, members, providers, provinces, candidates, victims, superiors, kids, youngsters, internees, offenders, others, superpowers, institutions, perpetrators, Canadians, individuals, visitors, 1997, drivers, jeunes, personnes, boatmasters.
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Verb, past tense
committed, Were.
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Cardinal number
Homophones for Adults:
- athlete, adulthood, adulate, addlehead, addle-head, adult tooth, addled, adelaide, atilt.
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- Synonyms:
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allurement,
bait,
carrot,
catalyst,
come-on,
consideration,
determinant,
drive,
encouragement,
enticement.
Nearby words
- adulthoods
- adultism
- adultize
- Adultness
- adultnesses
- Adults
- (all) agog
- (all) by itself
- (all) by yourself
- (all) joking aside/apart
- (all) on your own
Resources
- ADULTS synonyms at Thesaurus.com
- ADULTS synonyms and antonyms — Merriam-Webster dictionary
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Powerthesaurus.org
— ADULTS synonyms - Collins Dictionary — synonyms of ADULTS
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— another words for ADULTS
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adj full grown, fully developed, fully grown, grown-up, mature, of age, ripe
2
n grown or grown-up person (man or woman), grown-up, person of mature age
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
adult
( adults plural )
1 n-count An adult is a mature, fully developed person. An adult has reached the age when they are legally responsible for their actions., (Antonym: minor)
Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult…, Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
2 n-count An adult is a fully developed animal.
oft N n (Antonym: juvenile)
…a pair of adult birds.
3 adj Adult means relating to the time when you are an adult, or typical of adult people.
ADJ n
I’ve lived most of my adult life in London.
4 adj If you say that someone is adult about something, you think that they act in a mature, intelligent way, especially when faced with a difficult situation.
v-link ADJ (approval)
(=mature)
We were very adult about it. We discussed it rationally over a drink.
5 adj You can describe things such as films or books as adult when they deal with sex in a very clear and open way.
…an adult movie.
adult education
Adult education is education for adults in a variety of subjects, most of which are practical, not academic. Classes are often held in the evenings. n-uncount
Most adult education centres offer computing courses.
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