Antonyms for adult
əˈdʌlt, ˈæd ʌltadult

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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adult

   Antonyms:
   youth, stripling, boy, child, infant

   Synonyms:
   man, woman

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1. • Person

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1. adult, grownupnoun

   a fully developed person from maturity onward

   Antonyms:
   juvenile person, juvenile, immature, unsexy

   Synonyms:
   grownup

2. adultadjective

   any mature animal

   Antonyms:
   juvenile person, juvenile, unsexy, immature

   Synonyms:
   grownup

3. adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownupadjective

   (of animals) fully developed

   "an adult animal"; "a grown woman"

   Antonyms:
   juvenile person, juvenile, immature, unsexy

   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

4. pornographic, adultadjective

   designed to arouse lust

   "pornographic films and magazines"; "adult movies"

   Antonyms:
   juvenile, juvenile person, unsexy, immature

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

How to use adult in a sentence?

1. Joe Conlon:

   When disease transmission is going on, you need to kill adult mosquitoes and kill them now—and aerial spray is the best way to do it efficiently.

2. Ralph DeFranco:

   His son is still living in the same house with the same people, he is an adult and lives where he wants.

3. Norman Podhoretz:

   Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

4. Rachel Carson:

   If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

5. Kimberly Cahill:

   The issue is going to a game is not essential, yet my young adult student is not allowed off campus forany reason, not for groceries, not for allergy medicine, not for toilet paper.

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