Adult

Definition: Adult

Adult

Adjective

1. (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman".

Noun

1. A fully developed person from maturity onward.

2. Any mature animal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "adult" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ADULT

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Adult

Adolescence

Man; woman; adult, no chicken.

Adjective: adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.

Crosswords: Adult

Dutch (adult), Romanian (adult, big, full-aged, grown, grown up, man).

You know, there isn't a playwright in the world who could make me believe this would happen between two adult people (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Never send an adult to do a kid's job. (Spy Kids; writing credit: Robert Rodriguez)

Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

That, from childhood nightmares to adult schizophrenia, the insect is a common fixation on the human mind - partly because his face seems so evil, partly because he is so indestructible (The Hellstrom Chronicle; writing credit: David Seltzer)

I need an adult! I need an adult (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Top it off, he was growing hair all over and his penis was enormous, even by adult (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult. (references; author: unknown)

An adolescent is a person who acts like a baby when he isn't treated like an adult. (references; author: unknown)

Adult Education Topic: Real men ask for directions when lost. Real life testimonials. (references; author: unknown)

A baby sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. (references; author: unknown)

Adult Party Pack (1998)

The Adult Workshop of Love (1972)

Adult Fun (1972)

Congenital Broncho-oesophageal Fistula in an Adult (1970)

The Fable of the Adult Girl Who Got Busy (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Adult Brain Tumors (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Adult Soft Drinks in Europe (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Adult Crisps (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Mechanical Ventilation and Other Measures of Respiratory Support for Pediatric and Adult Patients (reference)

• Adult Hydrotherapy: A Practical Approach (reference)

• Raid on the Inarticulate: An Invitation to Adult Religion (reference)

• Reading Instruction for the Adult Illiterate (reference)

• The Adult illiterate in the community (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Web Feet Marc K-12 : Subject Guide To The Best Web Sites For Kindergarten To Adult - Cd-Rom (reference)

• Adult Basic Education (reference)

• Career Planning And Adult Development Journal (reference)

• Adult Contemporary Music Research Letter (reference)

• Wyoming Adult Continuing & Community Education Association Membership (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Adult Party, Vol. 1: Battling Beauties (reference)

• Adult Children of Dysfunctional Famil (reference)

• Adult Version of Jekyll & Hide (reference)

• Pack 2, Stag Party: Adult Party (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Left Behind 2: Adult Contemporary (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Austin-James T-Shirt Adult Lg 2 Per Package (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Braun Oral-B EB17-3 Power Toothbrush Replacement Brush Heads, 3 Adult Refills (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a white adult female patient being readied for radiation therapy. She is lying on a table, covered with a white cloth. In some views, a technician is standing by the patient adjusting the radiation equipment. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The photo shows an adult, black and white guinea pig with three young. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Skin ulcer due to leishmaniasis, hand of Central American adult. Credit: CDC.

Illustration of Aedes aegypti adult mosquito, vector of yellow fever. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Spectacular vines at the Key West Garden Club gardens at the West Martello, a part of the Civil War era defenses of Key West on the south side of the island. Note the adult arm on the right side of the photo for scale of vegetation. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Humpback salmon, adult female. In: "The Fishes of Alaska." Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVI, 1906. P. 360, Plate XXV. Credit: Fisheries.

Chinook salmon, adult female. In: "The Fishes of Alaska." Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVI, 1906. P. 360, Plate XXX. Credit: Fisheries.

An adult common murre. The common murre sustained the highest level of injuries after the Apex Houston oil spill. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Loggerhead sea turtles nest on South Carolina beaches from May to August. Adult and juvenile sea turtles can be observed in South Carolina estuaries during most months of the year where they feed on a variety of shellfish. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Adult booby and chick. Credit: Small World.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He thought him beautiful, noble, striking, adult, a complete man, with graceful attitude and pleasing air.

The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

To live, adult lice need to feed on blood. (references)

Adult disease was recognized more recently. (references)

Adult Women at Risk from Sexual Transmission. (references)

Business

This trend is observed for all adult age groups. (references)

Labor regulations allow contracts only for adult foreign workers. (references)

The president is elected by universal adult suffrage for a 6-year term and may not hold office a second time. (references)

Children

Togo

Literacy rates are 57 percent for adult men and 31 percent for adult women. (references)

Costa Rica

An adult who pays for sex with a minor can be sentenced to 2 to 10 years in prison. (references)

Indonesia

Ordinary courts handle juvenile crime, and juveniles often are imprisoned with adult offenders. (references)

Civil Liberties

Turkey

Broadcast media reach almost every adult, and their influence, particularly that of television, is great. (references)

Czech Republic

To register a religious group must have at least 10,000 adult members permanently residing in the country. (references)

Cuba

Migrants who travel to the United States must pay the Government a total of $600 per adult and $400 per child, plus airfare. (references)

Economic History

Grenada

Literacy--95% of adult population. (references)

Botswana

Education: Adult literacy --68.9%. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal adult. (references)

Human Rights

Mozambique

Minors are incarcerated with adult inmates. (references)

Laos

Juveniles are housed together with adult prisoners. (references)

Rwanda

Child soldiers were separated from the adult combatants. (references)

Minorities

Switzerland

The three adult defendants were tried, convicted, and were scheduled to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, after which they were to be sentenced. (references)

Political Economy

OMAN

Visa denials are not unusual for unaccompanied women tourists and young adult males. (references)

HAITI

Fierce adult competition for jobs ensures that child labor is not a factor in the industrial sector. (references)

Political Rights

Qatar

Under the amended Provisional Constitution, the Amir must be chosen from and by the adult males of the Al-Thani family. (references)

Monaco

Elections for National Council members, which are held every 5 years, are based on universal adult suffrage and secret balloting. (references)

Pakistan

The 1997 elections for the eight National Assembly members from the FATA, for the first time, were conducted on the basis of universal adult franchise. (references)

Travel

Zambia

HIV prevalence is very high in Zambia, with estimated rates of 30-40% of the adult population in urban areas. (references)

Women

Argentina

Adult prostitution is illegal but does occur. (references)

Guinea-Bissau

Adult illiteracy is 66 percent for men and 82 percent for women. (references)

Worker Rights

Malaysia

However, only adult members of the family receive a wage. (references)

Togo

Adult victims usually are lured with phony lucrative jobs. (references)

Georgia

Many work in the adult entertainment sector or as prostitutes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "adult": adult age ♦ adult animal ♦ adult body ♦ adult education ♦ adult education institute ♦ adult education organisation ♦ adult educational activities ♦ adult fare ♦ adult female ♦ adult female body ♦ adult film ♦ adult intelligence ♦ adult learning ♦ adult male ♦ adult male body ♦ adult movies ♦ adult plant ♦ adult population ♦ adult respiratory distress syndrome ♦ adult tooth ♦ adult vocational training ♦ adult wood ♦ adult world ♦ Bayer Low Adult Strength [OTC] ♦ become adult ♦ become an adult ♦ callow adult ♦ Ecotrin Low Adult Strength [OTC] ♦ mean consumption expenditure by household and by adult equivalent according to the degree of urbanisation ♦ mean consumption expenditure by household and by adult equivalent according to the degree of urbanization ♦ mean income by household and by adult equivalent according to the degree of urbanisation ♦ mean income by household and by adult equivalent according to the degree of urbanization ♦ mean number of adult equivalents according to certain basic characteristics ♦ Naldecon DX Adult Liquid [OTC] ♦ Protecting Adult Welfare ♦ residential college for adult education ♦ St Joseph Adult Chewable Aspirin [OTC] ♦ teneral adult. Additional references.

Beginning with "adult": adult-adult, adult-ape, adult-child, adult-education, adult-intelligent, adult-like, adult-looking, adult-only, Adult-Onset, adult-onset, adult-onset diabetes, adult-onset diabetes mellitus, adult-orientated, adult-oriented, adult-proof, adult-pupil, adult-size, adult-supported, adult-to-adult, adult-type.

Ending with "adult": adult-adult, non-adult, pre-adult, sub-adult, two-adult.

Afrikaans

volwasse (full-grown). (various references)

Albanian

i rritur (big, full grown, grown up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خاص بالبالغين, ‏البالغ سن الرشد, ‏راشد (elder, grown up, legally major, major, mature, orthodox, reasonable, sensible, sober), ‏بالغ (amplify, blow up, embroider, exaggerate, extreme, grown up, magnify, ostentatious, overdo, overdraw, overstate, overstep, play up, pubescent, romance, strain a point). (various references)

Aymara

chuymani. (various references)

Bulgarian 

възрастен (elderly, grey, grown, grown up, old, old age), зрял (grown, mature, mellow, ripe), за възрастни, пълнолетен (major, sui juris). (various references)

Chinese 

成人. (various references)

Czech

dospìlý (full grown, grown, grown up, grownup, ripe). (various references)

Danish

voksen (full-grown, grown-up). (various references)

Dutch

adult, volwassene (grown-up), volwassen (full-grown). (various references)

Esperanto

adolto, plenkreskulo (grown-up), plenkreska (full-grown), plenaĝa (full-grown, grown-up). (various references)

Farsi 

کبیر (Great, Major), به حدرشدرسیده , بزرگ (Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Grave, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous), بالغ (Adolescent, Full, Major, Marriageable, Mature, Ripe). (various references)

Finnish

aikuinen (grown-up). (various references)

French

adulte. (various references)

German

erwachsen (accrue, adultly, arise, develop, full-grown, grow, grown, grown up, grown-up, result), Erwachsener (grownup), Erwachsene (adultness, adults, grown up). (various references)

Greek 

ενήλικασ, ενήλικας (grown up), ενήλικοσ (grown up), ενήλικος, ενήλιξ, τέλειον έντομον (imago). (various references)

Hebrew 

מבוגר (elder, grown up, mature), בוגר (adolescent, mature), בגיר (adolescent, mature). (various references)

Hungarian

felnõtt (full grown, grown, grown up), felnőtt (grownup, grown-up), felnôtt (grown-up). (various references)

Icelandic

fullveðja (full-grown, grown-up), fullorðinn maður (grown-up), fullorðinn (full-grown). (various references)

Indonesian

orang dewasa, dewasa (grown up, marriageable, mature, of age), berbesar (great, grow up). (various references)

Italian

adulto (fully-grown, grown up). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

人 (character, human being, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, other people, people, person, personality, true man, visitor), 成虫 (imago), 成人　, 成人 , 成年者 (person of full age), 大人 (gentleman, man of substance or virtue), アダムスストークス症候群 (accelerando, achievement test, Adams-Stokes syndrome, adult education, adult shop, adult video, assembly, at, at bat, at home, attenuator, axe, sex shop, upper, uppercut, upper-middle), 丁年者 , 一人前 (full manhood, one helping, one portion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おとな, ひとりまえ (full manhood, one helping, one portion), ひと (bandit, character, condemning, denouncing, human being, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, other people, people, person, personality, spending, true man, visitor), にん (character, charge, duty, human being, kernel, man, man of talent, mankind, messenger, obligation, other people, people, person, personality, responsibility, true man, visitor), せいねんしゃ (person of full age), せいじん (holy man, sage, saint), せいちゅう (control, imago, loyalty, restraint, restriction, sperm, the exact middle), いちにんまえ (full manhood, one helping, one portion), アダルト , ていねんしゃ, だいにん (acting official, agency, agent, deputy, proxy, representative, substitute). (various references)

Korean 

성인. (various references)

Malay

orang dewasa (grown-up). (various references)

Manx

peiagh aasit, fer aasit, dooinney aasit, ben aasit. (various references)

Norwegian

voksen (full-grown, grown-up). (various references)

Papiamen

adulto (full-grown). (various references)

Pig Latin

adultay.(various references)

Portuguese

adulto (grown up, major). (various references)

Romanian

adult (big, full-aged, grown, grown up, man), om adult, matur (full grown, mature, maturely, mellow, ripe), mare (acred, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thick, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide). (various references)

Russian 

взрослый взрослый, взрослый (adults, big, full grown, grown up, marriageable). (various references)

Scottish

trealbhaidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zreo (full-fledged, grown, mature, mellow, ripe), punoletna osoba (major), punoletan, odrastao čovek, odrastao (full grown, grown, grown up). (various references)

Spanish

adulto (adultly, grown, grown up). (various references)

Sranan

bigisma (grown-up). (various references)

Swedish

vuxen (full-grown, grown, grown up, grown-up, mature), fullvuxen (full grown, full-grown, grown). (various references)

Tagalog

may gulang (grown-up). (various references)

Turkish

yetişkin (grown, grown up, major), ergin kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian

юнак (adolescent, juvenile, lad, shaveling, sprig, stripling, yearling, youngling, youngster, younker, youth), зрілий (ripe), повнолітній (major), доросла особина, доросла людина, дорослий (big, full blown, full grown, grown, grown up, marriageable), для дорослих, дивчина. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trưởng thành (full-grow), người lớn (grown-up), người đã trưởng thành (grown-up). (various references)

Welsh

oedolyn, mewn oed. (various references)

Yucatec

nuuktak (grown-up). (various references)

Zulu

umuntu osekhulile (grown-up). (various references)

adultis, adultumque, adultus, adultus (adj.), major, superadulta. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "adult": adulterant, adulterants, adulterate, adulterated, adulterates, adulterating, adulteration, adulterations, adulterator, adulterators, adulterer, adulterers, adulteress, adulteresses, adulteries, adulterine, adulterous, adulterously, adultery, adulthood, adulthoods, adultlike, adultly, adultness, adultnesses, adults. (additional references)

Words ending with "adult": nonadult, preadult, subadult, unadult. (additional references)

Words containing "adult": nonadults, subadults, unadulterated, unadulteratedly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Adult" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acult, adil, adol, aduit, adul, adule, aduls, adulte, adusta, aduti, Andulo, Ardallt, asult, atlu, Atul, auldt, aulf, daulat, Dduallt, dult, Eadulf, idolt, Odulf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: auld, daut, dual, laud.

-2 letters: alt, dal, lad, lat, tad, tau, uta.

-3 letters: ad, al, at, la, ta, ut.

+1 letter: adults, ductal, tuladi.

+2 letters: abluted, adulate, adultly, auldest, default, dualist, duality, faulted, lunated, luxated, mudflat, outlaid, outland, plaudit, saluted, tuladis, unadult, vaulted.

+3 letters: adulated, adulates, adulator, adultery, altitude, dactylus, deathful, defaults, dentural, dualists, ducktail, dutiable, emulated, flaunted, latitude, laudator, liquated, modulate, mudflats, nonadult, outlands, outlawed, ovulated, plaudits, preadult, pulsated, subadult, sublated, sulcated, sulfated, talmudic, ultradry, ultrared, ululated, umlauted, undulant, undulate, unsalted, valuated.