Adult

/ˈæd.ʌlt/

Synonyms for "adult" (80 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (16)

Noun(2 words)
grownupadult citizen
Adjective(3 words)
adult formbigfull-grown
Adjective(5 words)
Verb(1 words)

Strong matches (24)

Noun(11 words)
fully developedfully grown organismfully grown personfully grown treegrowed-upgrowngrown upgrown-upgrownupslegal adultmajority person
Adjective(3 words)
fully growngrown upindecent
Adjective(5 words)
fully growngrowngrownupgrownup songinappropriate

Related words (40)

Noun(10 words)
maturemature formmature personmature specimenmore maturemost maturensfwof agepostpubescentsexagenarian
Adjective(8 words)
mature decisionmature discussionmature organismmature societymature treematured formpornographicraunchy
Adverb(1 words)
more mature approach

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

18 entries
adult beingage groupanimalanimate beingbeastbeingbrutecreaturedevelopmental stagefaunahumanindividuallife stagemortalpersonsomebody

Showing 16 of 18 words.

More specific

12 entries
adult consumeradult employeeadult fishadult insectadult mammaladult manadult studentadult voteradult womanfully grown personlegal adultover eighteen

Collocations

7 entries
adult behavioradult educationadult learneradult literacyadult populationadult sizeadult supervision

Inflections

3 entries
adultsmore adultmost adult

Derivations

3 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

similar

2 entries

Sample sentences

29 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You are now an adult.

Source: tatoeba (16387)

And yet, in the "real adult world" there are a lot of competitions.

Source: tatoeba (41090)

Each way of sleeping is likely to produce a different kind of adult.

Source: tatoeba (43052)

That child talks as if he were an adult.

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