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Synonyms for adult
əˈdʌlt, ˈæd ʌltadult

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  1. adultadjective

    Of a human or animal, fully grown.

    Synonyms:
    grown up, big, fully grown

  2. adultadjective

    Synonyms:
    X-rated, XXXX, obscene, dirty, blue, XXX, pornographic, lewd

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. adult

    Synonyms:
    man, woman

    Antonyms:
    youth, stripling, boy, child, infant

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. adult, grownupnoun

    a fully developed person from maturity onward

    Synonyms:
    grownup

    Antonyms:
    juvenile person, juvenile, immature, unsexy

  2. adultadjective

    any mature animal

    Synonyms:
    grownup

    Antonyms:
    juvenile person, juvenile, unsexy, immature

  3. 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), crowing

    Antonyms:
    juvenile person, juvenile, immature, unsexy

  4. pornographic, adultadjective

    designed to arouse lust

    "pornographic films and magazines"; "adult movies"

    Synonyms:
    grownup, pornographic, fully grown, grown, full-grown, big

    Antonyms:
    juvenile, juvenile person, unsexy, immature

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. adultadjective

    Synonyms:
    mature, grown up, full grown, of age, of mature age

  2. adultnoun

    Synonyms:
    person of mature age, grown up person

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "adult":

    adults, grown-up, adulthood, grownup, mature, adultes, grown

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How to use adult in a sentence?

  1. Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage -RRB- Caussin:

    You were so adult around all of this and I commend the hell out of you because that cant be easy, the triggers and the trauma and all of that --nobody would blame you for going off and shooting from the hip so I commend you for the work that you did and for us, the work that we did around the situation.

  2. Sanita Belgrave:

    As an adult, it feels much harder to make friends but the moments spent together are cherished so dearly.

  3. James Mason:

    My team and I will present facts soon that will discredit any and all accusations that suggest that I have engaged in any acts of bullying, harassment, or aggressive acts against my accusers, to the contrary, We will show that I have been extremely instrumental in attempts to assist my accusers in their quest to re establish a relationship with their adult daughter. I have confidence in my legal team that I will be exonerated of all pending charges.

  4. Ashoke Pandit:

    The cuts have been levied in spite of the film-maker agreeing to an adult certificate.

  5. Rochelle McNamara:

    Then we got the email, and I was just like, I do n’t understand where an adult who’s driving a bus gets an idea that that is okay.


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