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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of age |
| Synonyms: | adult, developed, grown up, mature |
| Notes: | a groan (noun) is an utterance expressing pain or disapproval or a loud moan - groan (verb) means to indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure or to moan loudly; grown is the past participle of grow and means fully developed |
| Main Entry: | adult |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mature, fully grown |
| Synonyms: | developed, grown, grown-up, of age, ripe, ripened |
| Antonyms: | adolescent, infant |
| Main Entry: | full-grown/full-fledged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | developed, ripe, ready |
| Synonyms: | adult, full-blown, grown, grown-up, in one's prime, marriageable, mature, nubile, of age, perfected, prime, ripened |
| Antonyms: | new, small, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unripe, young |
| Main Entry: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
| Synonyms: | aggrandized, amplified, augmented, aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, dilated, distended, dropsical, enlarged, euphuistic, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magnified, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, overestimated, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, pumped up, ranting, rhapsodical, rhetorical, showy, spread, stretched, surcharged, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | mature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adult, grown-up |
| Synonyms: | complete, cultivated, cultured, developed, fit, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, fully grown, grown, in full bloom, in one's prime, matured, mellow, mellowed, of age, perfected, prepared, prime, ready, ripe, ripened, seasoned, settled, sophisticated |
| Antonyms: | green, immature, inexperienced, young, youthful |
| Main Entry: | rank |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abundant, luxurious |
| Synonyms: | coarse, dense, excessive, extreme, exuberant, fertile, flourishing, fructiferous, grown, high-growing, junglelike, lavish, lush, luxuriant, overabundant, overgrown, productive, profuse, prolific, rampant, rich, semitropical, tropical, vigorous, wild |
| Antonyms: | rare, scarce, sparse |
| Main Entry: | ripe |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fully developed; experienced |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, adult, aged, completed, conditioned, consummate, enlightened, enriched, filled out, finished, fit, full, full-blown, full-fledged, fully grown, grown, grown-up, in readiness, increased, informed, judicious, learned, mature, matured, mellow, overdue, perfected, plump, prepared, prime, ready, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, skilled, skillful, sound, timely, usable, versed, well-timed, wise |
| Antonyms: | immature, inexperienced, undeveloped, unripe |
| Main Entry: | full-fledged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fully developed |
| Synonyms: | completely developed, developed, experienced, full-grown, grown, grown-up, in full bloom, mature, qualified, schooled, seasoned, skilled, trained, well-developed |
| Main Entry: | grown-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adult |
| Synonyms: | developed, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, grown, mature, of age |
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