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Synonyms for Adult
əˈdʌlt, ˈæd ʌltadult

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Wiktionary4.0 / 1 vote

  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 Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. adult

    Synonyms:
    man, woman

    Antonyms:
    youth, stripling, boy, child, infant

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. adult, grownupnoun

    a fully developed person from maturity onward

    Synonyms:
    grownup, adult

    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, adult, 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, adult, pornographic, fully grown, grown, full-grown, big

    Antonyms:
    juvenile, juvenile person, unsexy, immature

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  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. Steve Cohen:

    He comes from money. He is White. He’s being sentenced as an adult, appropriately. And for an adult to get away with these crimes without doing jail time is unjust.

  2. Joel Maturi:

    It goes without saying that we as a committee firmly believe that adult entertainment has no place in college sports.

  3. Mark Hatch:

    On occasion, these can be very positive statements that allow the Admission Committee to see strong moral conviction and how a young adult takes responsibility and owns a mistake.

  4. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

    People say, everywhere I go, you seem to be the adult on stage.

  5. Daniel Budnitz:

    There is an opportunity here for innovating medication container options that promote adult adherence and provide portability and convenience, while maintaining child safety.


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