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Synonyms for adult

grown-up

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  • grown-up
  • mature person
  • person of mature age
  • grown or grown-up person (man or woman)

fully grown

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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for adult

having reached full growth and development

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Synonyms for adult

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In Mindanao, adult joblessness decreased by nine points, from 26 percent (2.7 million adults) in December to 17 percent in March.
He noted that in the June 2018 survey, there were 8.6 million jobless adult Filipinos, fewer than the 10.9 million recorded in March.
Joblessness in the country jumped to 23.9 percent (estimated 10.9 million adults) in the first three months of the year, an SWS poll of 1,200 adults released on Labor Day found.
The above notions underscore the idea that teaching adult learners cannot rely on old and static models of teaching.
It has also prompted growing interest in how young adults, who are only beginning to interact with credit markets and accumulate assets, have fared in the wake of the Great Recession.
According to Comings, Parrella, and Soricone (1999), there are two characteristics of educational practices of adult learners that correlate with persistence.
Through these mechanisms ALA links adult educators, who are often working in isolation, and enables the development of not only the individual members but also the programs and services that are delivered to adult learners in Australia.
Your articles on why young adult Catholics do not attend Mass were most revealing in what they didn't say.
Ages: 6-12; 12-18; adult. Levels: Beg, int, adv, pro, teach.
Tell students that if they see an adult they don't recognize in school, or on school grounds, or who is not wearing an official visitor's ID, they should let a teacher or other adult know immediately.
Adult meerkats catch and kill the scorpions and then feed the arachnid to the youngest pups.
"Humans are five per cent of adult weight, possibly due to long pregnancies meaning the baby is more developed - especially our large brains.
This time, I was the adult, the observer, the journalist taking notes on everything that went on and writing columns for The Kansas City Star about the everyday goings-on in the school.
Knornschild recorded contact calls from bat pups but also found a variety of sounds resembling adult calls.