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

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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. Stuart Brideaux:

   One person, an adult, was declared deceased and not transported, we did take a woman believed to be in her mid-50s to the Sheldon Chumir with a minor soft-tissue injury.

2. Krishan Patel:

   I welcome the news that Jacobus Pharmaceuticals has now received approval for Jacobus Pharmaceuticals product to treat pediatric LEMS. I urge Catalyst to respond by lowering its own outrageous prices. If not, Congress must act. the adult LEMS community is thrilled and trying to move forward in getting the new drug through off-label.

3. David Webb:

   We've had a problem in this country where parents have sent their kids off for eight or so hours a day for the government to raise their children, that responsibility is yours. Once that child is out there in the world, until they are an adult, they are your responsibility. Stay involved.

4. Michael Avenatti:

   Rudy Giuliani's basically stating that women that engage in the adult film industry and other forms of pornography don't have reputations and are not entitled to respect.

5. Erik Anderson:

   There used to just be a lot more balance, you go look at the top 10 films of any given year going back to the'90s,'80s,'70s, and it was a mix of everything : action and science fiction and drama and comedies. What we see now is just Marvel, Marvel, Marvel, [ DC Extended Universe ],' Dune' -- these other existing IPs rather than original content and mid-range budget adult stories.