Antonyms for adulthoodadult·hood

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1. adulthoodnoun

   Antonyms:
   childhood

2. adulthoodnoun

   The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.

   Antonyms:
   childhood

Matched Categories

1. • Maturity
   • Time Of Life

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. adulthood, maturitynoun

   the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed

   Synonyms:
   matureness, maturity, due date, maturity date

2. adulthoodnoun

   the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity

   Synonyms:
   maturity

How to use adulthood in a sentence?

1. Adam Leventhal:

   ADHD's been linked with substance use disorders during adulthood and even involvement in the criminal justice system, and the symptoms are distressing for the person affected, if we can identify any potential risk factor that is implicated in this disorder then that's important, especially ones that are modifiable like digital media use.

2. Ian Colman:

   Although there is a fairly good body of evidence suggesting that maternal depression is associated with depression in the child, there is a lot less about how maternal depression might influence adolescent behavior, given how prevalent maternal depression is, and that risky adolescent behaviors are associated with poor long-term outcomes in adulthood, we thought better evidence in this area could be really useful.

3. Derek Lee:

   Her chances of surviving to adulthood are good but adult giraffes are regularly poached for bush meat, and her coloration might make her a target.

4. Kieran Dowd and colleagues:

   If mothers do not currently perceive their child’s weight as problematic, they are less likely to seek or implement any intervention to address this, it is likely then that the child will continue to gain weight throughout childhood, adolescence and into adulthood.

5. Photographer Tom King:

   It's important to show that they're just, in my opinion, vulnerable young men on the boundary between adolescence and adulthood and trying to work out what they're supposed to be doing in life, and at that point they've got this thing going on around them, just this crazy amount of violence, and people like them are getting pulled in.

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