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

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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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1. • Person

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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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1. Temo Waqanivalu:

   Up to 95% of the adult population are overweight or obese in some countries.

2. Pamela McPherson:

   When you go through that metal detector and those series of locked doors, and then you see children playing and women walking around carrying young children, it's just sort of a surreal experience, i don't think you can experience that without questioning,' Why are these children in a secure facility ? Why are these children in what used to be an adult prison ?' It's jarring.

3. Rockefeller University:

   We had to convince the colonies to accept the mutants. If the conditions weren’t right, the worker ants would stop caring for larvae and destroy them, once the ants successfully made it to the adult phase, we noticed a shift in their behavior almost immediately.

4. Teri Mastando:

   It's a pretty routine idea that now that she is an adult she should be able to handle her own affairs and that she should be able to remain anonymous because of her age when this happened.

5. Tow Dow:

   My parents wanted to make sure it was normal, when I wasn’t doing the show, I was at school. We had family vacations during the summers and I had my group of friends. And I appreciated that. It’s difficult to make the transition from being a kid actor to an adult actor because all sorts of things happen.