Synonyms for adult
əˈdʌlt, ˈæd ʌltadult

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 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 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

Matched Categories

1. • Person

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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 databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "adult":

   adults, grown-up, adulthood, grownup, mature, adultes, grown

How to pronounce adult?

How to say adult in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use adult in a sentence?

1. Flager County Sheriff Rick Staly:

   There is zero excuse for an adult, especially a parent, to be physically involved in a juvenile dispute, kids need to have leadership from their parents and taught how to handle disputes properly.

2. Wulf Palinski:

   Further research is warranted to understand the exact mechanisms, but high cholesterol in mothers may impact the development of organ systems in the fetus or leave a lasting imprint on the regulation of genes that help maintain cholesterol levels in the adult offspring.

3. 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.

4. Scott Gottlieb:

   While we remain committed to advancing policies that promote the potential of e-cigarettes to help adult smokers move away from combustible cigarettes, that work can’t come at the expense of kids.

5. Nathan M. Pusey:

   It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. To refuse to become frustrated and angry, to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain. To determine to be adult and fair. And, thus, to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism and hopelessness. It is the long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have truly to understand the role of humane learning.