Adult
Adult adjective - Dealing in or with explicitly sexual material.
Usage example: an adult magazine
Crude and adult are semantically related in sexually explicit topic. In some cases you can use "Crude" instead an adjective "Adult".
Crude
Crude adjective - Being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining.
Adult and crude are semantically related in euphemistic topic. Sometimes you can use "Adult" instead an adjective "Crude".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- She is forced to wear false teeth for the rest of her life - and, while as an adult she speaks the Queen's English when her teeth are in, she reverts to the crude Jamaican patois of her youth when the teeth are out.
Source: Literature / White Teeth - It puzzles me that anyone would claim that it's an exception to All Adult Animation Is South Park, when in fact it still indulges in extreme levels of crude humor and graphic violence.
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The boy and his bear become famous all over the world... then we Time Skip to a point where the boy is now an emotionally-stunted adult, still dependent on his teddy bear, who is a Former Child Star and incredibly hedonistic and crude.
Source: Subverted Kids Show
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Crude and Adult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/crude
Adult & Crude. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/crude>.
Crude or Adult. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/crude.
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