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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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. James Hageman:

   I think that I was born and raised for this moment in time, and it is to protect the future for those people, i have spent much of my adult life, much of my professional career, fighting for and protecting Wyoming.

2. Michael Bowers:

   One thing that struck me most of a manger, is the wide variety of people who come in, we see older customers bring in their adult children. It's normal people using it. It's everyday people in your neighborhood.

3. George Chang:

   Obesity during childhood actually is a major predictor of adult obesity.

4. Emily Bray:

   We know that adult dogs are good at these tasks, when does that start ? Does it take years of observing humans and living with humans, or is that ability something they are more biologically prepared for that has evolved over the course of domestication ?

5. Holly Richmond:

   Being an adult entertainer is as valid a career as being a lawyer, so this was something she chose to do to put herself through school. I would hope that she wouldn’t have to contend with that very much — it’s just a different choice.

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