ADULT
What does "ADULT" mean?
A fully grown person or animal that has reached maturity.
Meanings
- A person who is fully grown and legally of age. The film is meant for adults, not children.
- Fully developed and mature; grown-up. She showed an almost adult calm for a twelve-year-old.
- Intended for or suitable only for grown-ups, often as a euphemism for explicit content. The site is restricted to adult material.
- To behave in a responsible, grown-up way, especially with reluctance. I've been adulting all day - taxes, dentist, the works. informal
Did you know?
- 'Adult' and 'adolescent' are the same Latin verb caught at two moments: 'adolescere', to grow up - the adolescent is still mid-growth, the adult has finished it.
Word origin
From Latin 'adultus', past participle of 'adolescere' (to grow up) - which is also the root of 'adolescent', so the grown-up and the growing share one ancestor.
Remember it
ADULT = A Day's Useful Labour Tires - the grown-up's verdict on a working day.
A little poem
Once the word meant tall enough to reach.
Now it means the reaching never ends -
you climb, and find the shelf has climbed as well.
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What it teaches
Being an adult is less an age you arrive at than a thousand small choices to show up anyway.
Quick facts
What does ADULT mean?
A fully grown person or animal that has reached maturity.
Is ADULT a valid word?
Yes — ADULT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ADULT?
ADULT has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ADULT come from?
From Latin 'adultus', past participle of 'adolescere' (to grow up) - which is also the root of 'adolescent', so the grown-up and the growing share one ancestor.
What can ADULT teach us?
Being an adult is less an age you arrive at than a thousand small choices to show up anyway.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.