Mature vs Adult - What's the difference?
mature | adult |
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Profound; careful.
(obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To become mature; to ripen.
To gain experience or wisdom with age.
(finance) To reach the date when payment is due
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 .
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* 2013 , Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
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As adjectives the difference between mature and adult
is that mature is fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe while adult is fully grown.As verbs the difference between mature and adult
is that mature is to become mature; to ripen while adult is to (cause to) be or become an adult.As a noun adult is
a fully grown human or animal.mature
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- She is quite mature for her age.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
Antonyms
* (grown up) childish, immature * (profound) superficialVerb
Derived terms
* mature upadult
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,