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Clown vs Adult - What's the difference?

clown | adult |

As nouns the difference between clown and adult

is that clown is clown while adult is a fully grown human or animal.

As an adjective adult is

fully grown.

As a verb adult is

to (cause to) be or become an.

clown

English

Noun

(wikipedia clown) (en noun)
  • A performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig and who performs slapstick.
  • A person who acts in a silly fashion.
  • (UK) A stupid person.
  • (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
  • (Sir Philip Sidney)
  • (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
  • * Cowper
  • The clown , the child of nature, without guile.

    Synonyms

    * (performance artist working in a circus) * (person who acts in a silly fashion) buffoon, fool

    Derived terms

    * clown doctor * clownfish * clownish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act in a silly fashion.
  • Derived terms

    * clown about (British) * clown around

    See also

    * coulrophobia * jester * jackpudding ----

    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)