: fully developed and mature : grown-up
: of, relating to, intended for, or befitting adults
: dealing in or with explicitly sexual material
: one that is adult
: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
: of or relating to animate being
: lifelong
: using a living model
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