Synonyms 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

   Synonyms:
   man, woman

   Antonyms:
   youth, stripling, boy, child, infant

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Person

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

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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. Sara Cross:

   This is not an adult disease anymore.

2. Marion Underwood:

   Receiving these pictures is upsetting, especially at such a young age, because it's something you didn't ask to see, it's something you may have wished you did not open, but you can't erase it out of your mind, it's illegal, it's worrisome, it's scary, it's dangerous, it's loaded. If you tell an adult, everybody will get in a lot of trouble. So I think it puts them in a really tough position.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   When goals are set, they're set to be able to stimulate us to get to that goal, if you don't meet the precise goal and you fall short by a few percent, that doesn't mean you stop in your effort to get people vaccinated, we have always held that July 4 is not the end of it. We want to reach 70% of the adult population by the Fourth of July. I believe we can, I hope we will and if we don't, we're going to continue to keep pushing.

4. Charles Allen:

   What happens inside those four walls is also a can the executive can no longer kick. We won't see either immediate solutions to the conditions or transformation of the adult production system through half measures.

5. Ludmila Camparotto:

   For coffee, it seems that young fields suffered the most, and the higher parts of adult trees.