Adult vs Grownup - What's the difference?
adult | grownup |
Fully grown.
Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
Containing material of an explicit sexual nature
To (cause to) be or become an .
* 1974 , Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
* 2013 , Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
* 2013 , Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art (ISBN 364390374X), page 84:
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As nouns the difference between adult and grownup
is that adult is a fully grown human or animal while grownup is an adult.As adjectives the difference between adult and grownup
is that adult is fully grown while grownup is of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.As a verb adult
is to (cause to) be or become an adult.adult
English
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- an adult human, animal, or plant
- adult clothes
- adult content
- an adult movie
Synonyms
* (fully grown) big, fully grown, grown up * (unsuitable for children) blue, dirty, lewd, obsceneVerb
(en verb)- Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted "; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five,
- The process of adulting children,