Synonym: full-grown, grown-up, mature, of age. Antonym: child, childlike. Similar words: schedule, head up, credulous, on schedule, graduate, gradually, lead up to, graduation. Meaning: ['ædʌlt] n. 1. a fully developed person from maturity onward 2. any mature animal. adj. (of animals) fully developed.
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121, About 40 percent. of Britain's adult women part-time workers would benefit from Labour's proposal for a minimum wage.
122, That includes more than £150,000 to projects supervising offenders through the young adult offenders grant scheme.
123, Together, these 60 million people represent more than one third of the entire adult population.
124, Overall 15 percent of adult females and 12 percent of males defined themselves as carers.
125, From the 1840s child and young adult mortality contributed most of the decline.
126, For the first time in my adult life, I had played a role that really satisfied me.
127, The unicameral legislature, the National Assembly, is also elected for a five-year term by universal adult suffrage.
128, They attempt to adopt adult word forms and use them with increasing consistency from one occasion to the next.
129, On the one hand, Mormonism was partially democratized in that virtually every adult male could be ordained a priest.
130, Significantly, the adult populations in Pembrokeshire and Somerset showed similar ranges of variability.
131, Half of the adult population never fully develops formal operational reasoning.
132, The adult males are dark, the females and young are sandy-brown.
133, This category was clearly intended to introduce and promote study opportunities in liberal adult education.
134, Likewise, for those caring for an adult the scheme would have to be built on an adequate system of disability benefits.
135, Choice, in almost all its facets, is diminished in the life of an illiterate adult.
136, A native of Richmond, he lived much of his adult life bouncing around the West Coast via train or sometimes car.
137, There is a unicameral Legislative Assembly of 70 seats, 62 of which are elected by universal adult suffrage for five years.
138, Ann became a Catholic as an adult and entered the book trade working at a Catholic bookshop in Exeter.
139, The incidence of severe pancreatitis discharges among adult men also correlated significantly with the alcohol consumption in the country.
140, Sometimes a young otter trails the white-faced adult, and is harried by a hungry gull competing for scraps of abalone.
141, Piaget was not the first to draw our attention to the fact that children's behaviour is different from mature adult behaviour.
142, Rhode Island native Charlie spent the better part of his adult life collecting Elvis Presley memorabilia.
143, Airbags, designed for adult males, may punch outward too forcefully for children and small adults.
143, Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
144, They compared the finger and palm prints of 64 healthy adult males and 90 males with duodenal ulcers.
145, Legislative authority is now vested in a unicameral National Congress, with 100 members elected for five years by universal adult suffrage.
146, Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism.
147, It had a staggering seven hundred thousand members, a figure that counted more than half of the entire adult population.
148, This is one reason why hearing impairment in childhood is totally different from hearing loss in adult life.
149, As a whole group they are in relative or absolute poverty, in contrast to the general adult population of working age.
150, In our own society there is no such clear transition from childhood to adult life.
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