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Adult vs Offspring - What's the difference?

adult | offspring |

As nouns the difference between adult and offspring

is that adult is a fully grown human or animal while offspring is a person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.

As an adjective adult

is fully grown.

As a verb adult

is to (cause to) be or become an.

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

    Related terms

    * adolescent * adulthood

    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)

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    offspring

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
  • All a person's descendants, including further generations.
  • An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
  • (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
  • (computing) A process launched by another process.

    • Usage notes

    * The form offsprings is also used for the plural, especially the computing sense.

    Synonyms

    * baby/babies, child/children, issue (plural only), get * (all descendants) descendants, lineage, progeny, get, binary clone

    Antonyms

    * genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female) * (descendants) ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers

    Derived terms

    * donor offspring * parent-offspring conflict