Adult vs Nubile - What's the difference?
adult | nubile |
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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of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
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
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,