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Adult vs Nubile - What's the difference?

adult | nubile |

As nouns the difference between adult and nubile

is that adult is a fully grown human or animal while nubile is a young sexually attractive woman.

As adjectives the difference between adult and nubile

is that adult is fully grown while nubile is of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).

As a verb adult

is to (cause to) be or become an adult.

adult

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fully grown human or animal.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Fully grown.
  • an adult human, animal, or plant
  • Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children.
  • adult clothes
  • Containing material of an explicit sexual nature
  • adult content
    an adult movie

    Synonyms

    * (fully grown) big, fully grown, grown up * (unsuitable for children) blue, dirty, lewd, obscene

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (cause to) be or become an .
  • * 1974 , Occasional Papers (Syracuse University), issues 42-46, page 5:
  • Womanhood was achieved at twenty-one, when the female was "adulted "; manhood was fully achieved at twenty-five,
  • * 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:
  • The process of adulting children,
  • * (seemoreCites)
  • nubile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
  • sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
  • Usage notes

    For a man, especially a young man, (m) is sometimes used as the corresponding term in the sense ‘marriageable’, particularly in the phrase (eligible bachelor) .

    Derived terms

    * nubility

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young sexually attractive woman
  • Anagrams

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