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adult

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of adult

1 relating to or typical of adults; displaying proper maturity

  • an adult reaction to the issue
Synonyms of adult

grown-up, mature
Near Antonyms of adult

childish, infantile, kiddish
Antonyms of adult

adolescent, immature

2 dealing in or with explicitly sexual material

  • an adult magazine
Synonyms of adult

mature, pornographic, porny, X-rated
Words Related to adult

hard-core, soft-core

bedroom, erotic (also erotical), sexy, suggestive

bawdy, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, indecent, lascivious, lewd, lustful, nasty, obscene, ribald, salacious, smutty, unprintable, vulgar, wanton

immodest, kinky, prurient

earthy, racy, salty

indecorous, unbecoming

debasing, perverted, profane

naughty, wicked
Near Antonyms of adult

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

correct, decent, decorous, genteel, polite, proper, seemly
Antonyms of adult

clean, G-rated

3 fully grown or developed

  • insects that are butterflies in their adult stage
Synonyms of adult

full-blown, full-fledged, mature, matured, ripe, ripened
Words Related to adult

aged, aging (or ageing), long-lived, old, older

golden, mellow
Near Antonyms of adult

blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, flourishing, flowering

undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed
Antonyms of adult

adolescent, green, immature, juvenile, unripe, unripened, young, youngish, youthful

adult

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of adult

a fully grown person

  • at the beach, the adults sat under broad umbrellas while the children splashed in the water
Synonyms of adult

grown-up
Words Related to adult

middle-ager

ancient, elder, gaffer, graybeard, oldster, old-timer, senior, senior citizen
Near Antonyms of adult

bairn [chiefly Scottish], child, cub, kid, moppet, tad, toddler, tot, tyke (also tike)

baby, infant

adolescent, juvenile, minor, youngling, youngster, youth

preteen, preteen-ager, teen, teenager, teener, teenybopper, tween

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