Synonyms of the word adult


ADULTANIMAL - BEAST - BIG - BRUTE - CREATURE - FAUNA - FULL-GROWN - GROWN - GROWNUP - INDIVIDUAL - MATURE - MORTAL - PERSON - SOMEBODY - SOMEONE - SOUL

adult

  • n. A fully grown human or animal.
  • n. A person who has reached the legal age of majority, generally 18 years of age.
  • adj. Fully grown.
  • adj. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
  • adj. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; designating pornography.
  • v. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.

animal

  • n. In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a…
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
  • n. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc.).
  • n. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
  • n. (informal) A person of a particular type.
  • adj. Of or relating to animals.
  • adj. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
  • adj. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
  • adj. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

beast

  • n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous…
  • n. (more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
  • n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
  • n. (slang) A large and impressive thing or structure.
  • n. (slang) Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.
  • n. (slang, prisons) A sex offender.
  • n. (figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
  • v. (Britain, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
  • adj. (slang) great; excellent; powerful.

big

  • adj. Of great size, large.
  • adj. (of an industry or other field) Thought to have undue influence.
  • adj. Popular.
  • adj. (informal) Adult.
  • adj. (informal) Fat.
  • adj. (informal) Important or significant.
  • adj. (informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
  • adj. (informal) Mature, conscientious, principled.
  • adj. (informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case…
  • adj. (sometimes figuratively) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
  • adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns.
  • adj. (of a city) populous.
  • adv. In a loud manner.
  • adv. In a boasting manner.
  • adv. In a large amount or to a large extent.
  • adv. On a large scale, expansively.
  • adv. Hard.
  • n. Someone or something that is large in stature.
  • n. An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
  • n. (as plural) The big leagues, big time.
  • v. (transitive) To praise or recommend.
  • v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to inhabit; occupy.
  • v. (reflexive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to locate oneself.
  • v. (transitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to build; erect; fashion.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic or Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) to dwell; have a dwelling.
  • n. One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.

brute

  • adj. Without reason or intelligence (of animals).
  • adj. Characteristic of unthinking animals; senseless, unreasoning (of humans).
  • adj. Being unconnected with intelligence or thought; purely material, senseless.
  • adj. Crude, unpolished.
  • adj. Strong, blunt, and spontaneous.
  • adj. Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless.
  • adj. Inexplicable.
  • n. (now archaic) An animal seen as being without human reason; a senseless beast.
  • n. A person with the characteristics of an unthinking animal; a coarse or brutal person.
  • n. (archaic, Britain, Cambridge University slang) One who has not yet matriculated.
  • v. Obsolete spelling of bruit.

creature

  • n. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
  • n. A living being; an animal or human.
  • n. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

fauna

  • n. (uncountable) animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
  • n. (countable) a book, cataloguing the animals of a country etc.

full-grown

  • adj. Fully developed; adult.

grown

  • v. past participle of grow.
  • adj. Covered by growth; overgrown.
  • adj. (US) (of a person) Adult.

grownup

  • adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
  • adj. Adult; fully developed; mature.
  • n. An adult. (used especially by children).

individual

  • n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
  • n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
  • n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
  • n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
  • adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
  • adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mature

  • adj. Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
  • adj. Profound; careful.
  • adj. (obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
  • v. (intransitive, of food, especially fruit) To become mature; to ripen.
  • v. (intransitive) To gain experience or wisdom with age.
  • v. (transitive) To make something mature.
  • v. (intransitive, finance) To reach the date when payment is due.

mortal

  • adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
  • adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
  • adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
  • adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
  • adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
  • adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
  • adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
  • n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

person

  • n. An individual; usually a human being.
  • n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
  • n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
  • n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
  • n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
  • n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
  • v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

somebody

  • pron. Some unspecified person.
  • n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

  • pron. Some person.
  • n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

  • n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
  • n. The spirit or essence of anything.
  • n. Life, energy, vigor.
  • n. (music) Soul music.
  • n. A person, especially as one among many.
  • n. An individual life.
  • n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
  • v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

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