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adulate |
adulation |
adulator |
adulatory |
adulatress |
adult
| adult body
| adult education
| adult female
| adult female body
| adult intelligence
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adult
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun adult has 2 senses
- adult(n = noun.person) grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward; Array is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
- adult(n = noun.animal) Array - any mature animal; Array is a kind of animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
has parts: adult body
has particulars: brachycephalic, caregiver, catch, match, centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist, case, character, eccentric, type, conservative, conservativist, dolichocephalic, elder, senior, ex-spouse, host, important person, influential person, personage, jack of all trades, liberal, liberalist, progressive, liberal, adult male, man, militarist, warmonger, golden ager, old person, oldster, senior citizen, disarmer, pacificist, pacifist, patrician, pledgee, pledger, professional, professional person, sobersides, man of the world, sophisticate, homebody, stay-at-home, stoic, unemotional person, thoroughbred, adult female, woman
Derived forms adjective adult1, noun adulthood2, noun adulthood1
Antonym: juvenile
Derived forms adjective adult1, noun adulthood2, noun adulthood1
Adjective adult has 2 senses
- adult(s = adj.all) big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup - (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" Derived forms noun adult2, noun adult1
- adult(s = adj.all) pornographic - designed to arouse lust; "pornographic films and magazines"; "adult movies"
CIDE DICTIONARY
adult, a. [L. adultus, p. p. of adolescere, akin to alere to nourish: cf. F. adulte. See Adolescent, Old.].
Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age. [1913 Webster]
adult, n.
A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity. [1913 Webster]
" In the common law, the term is applied to a person who has attained full age or legal majority; in the civil law, to males after the age of fourteen, and to females after twelve."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
adult, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 mature, grown-up.
2 a of or for adults (adult education). b euphem. sexually explicit; indecent (adult films).
--n.
1 an adult person.
2 Law a person who has reached the age of majority.
--adj.
1 mature, grown-up.
2 a of or for adults (adult education). b euphem. sexually explicit; indecent (adult films).
--n.
1 an adult person.
2 Law a person who has reached the age of majority.
Derivative
adulthood n. adultly adv.
Etymology
L adultus past part. of adolescere grow up: cf. ADOLESCENT
THESAURUS
adult
aged, big, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, grown, grown up, grown-up, marriable, marriageable, mature, matured, maturescent, nubile, of age, of marriageable age, old, ripe, ripenedROGET THESAURUS
adult
Adolescence
N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose, adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.
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