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Adult
Definitions
- 1 Fully grown.
"an adult human, animal, or plant"
- 2 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.
"adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary"
- 3 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.; Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.
"adult situations; adult discussions"
- 4 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.; Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.
"an adult drink; an adult root beer float"
- 5 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.; Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults. usually
"an adult cookie; adult gummy worms"
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- 6 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.; Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; pornographic.
"an adult movie"
- 7 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.; Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.
"adult language; an adult cartoon"
- 8 Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.; Intended for, or restricted to, those who are not young children.
"an adult menu; an adult fare"
- 1 (of animals) fully developed wordnet
- 2 designed to arouse lust wordnet
- 1 An animal that is full-grown.
"The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form"
- 2 any mature animal wordnet
- 3 A person who has reached the legal age of majority.
- 4 a fully developed person from maturity onward wordnet
- 1 To behave like an adult. intransitive, slang
"Adulting is hard!"
- 2 To (cause to) be or become an adult. nonstandard, rare
"Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted"; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five, […]"
Etymology
From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
From French adulte, from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect passive participle of adolescō (“I grow up”). Compare adolescent.
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