adultとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音, General Australian, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/
  • (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈdʌlt/, /ˈæd.əlt/
  • 韻: -ʌlt

名詞

adult (複数形 adults)

1. A fully grown human or animal.
   • 1840, Georges Cuvier, Edward Blyth, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, and J.O. Westwood, “The fourth order of reptiles—The batrachians”, in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom‎^[1], page 286:

     The young not only differs from the adult by the presence of its gills, but its feet are only developed by degrees, and in several genera there are also a deciduous beak and tail, and intestines of a different form

2. A person who has reached the legal age of majority.

同意語

• (fully grown human または animal): grown up; see also Thesaurus:adult

形容詞

adult (comparative more adult, superlative most adult)

1. Fully grown.

   an adult human, animal, or plant

   • 1837, Michael Donovan, Domestic Economy: Human Food, Animal and Vegetable‎^[2], page 86:

     The paws of the adult brown bear, and also their hams, especially when smoked, are considered a great delicacy.

2. Intended for or restricted to adults rather than children due to size, maturity, knowledge level, judgement, etc.

   adult clothes; adult cereal; an adult documentary

   • 1973, Marshall Kaplan, Gans, and Kahn, Children and the urban environment (page 21)

     In May 1967 the WGBH Education Division submitted an initial proposal to HUD for a series of four adult television documentaries on conservation in an urban environment.

   1. Containing situations or discussions intended primarily for adults, such as serious crime, illicit drug use, extramarital affairs, etc.

      adult situations; adult discussions

   2. (of a beverage) Containing alcohol, intended for consumption only by adults.

      an adult drink; an adult root beer float

   3. (of a cookie, gummy, etc.) Containing marijuana, intended for consumption only by adults.

      an adult cookie; adult gummy worms

   4. Containing material of an explicit sexual nature; of, or pertaining to, pornography.

      an adult movie

      This program contains adult content. Parental discretion is advised.

   5. Containing excessive vulgar or profane speech, text or images, intended only for adults.

      adult language; an adult cartoon

同意語

• (fully grown): big, fully grown, grown up; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
• (intended for adults): grown up; see also Thesaurus:adultlike or Thesaurus:for adults
• (containing explicit sexual material): pornographic, X-rated, XXX, XXXX; see also Thesaurus:pornographic
• (卑語): blue, indecent, obscene, salacious; see also Thesaurus:obscene

派生語

関連する語

• adolescent
• adulthood

動詞

adult (三人称単数 現在形 adults, 現在分詞 adulting, 過去形および過去分詞形 adulted)

1. (intransitive, informal) To behave like an adult.
3. (nonstandard, rare) To (cause to) be or become an adult.
   • 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, Ewa Rewers, The Contradictions of Urban Art, →ISBN, page 84:

     The process of adulting children […] overlaps with the process of the uncontrolled infiltration of the media […] into children’s imagination.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:adult.

Further reading

• adult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• adult in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

アナグラム

• talud