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Adult

Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

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Mature 84% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Mature 84% connected

Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Brachycephalic 76% connected

Alt. of Brachycephalous

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Case 76% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Character 76% connected

A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Eccentric 76% connected

Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center o…

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Man 76% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Oldster 76% connected

An old person.

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Thoroughbred 76% connected

Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettleso…

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Type 76% connected

The mark or impression of something; stamp; impressed sign; emblem.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Big 92% connected

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.

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Full-grown 92% connected

Having reached the limits of growth; mature.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grown 92% connected

of Grow

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Pornographic 92% connected

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

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Juvenile 94% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Juvenile 94% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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