Adult
Adult adjective - Relating to or typical of adults; displaying proper maturity.
Greater
Greater adjective - Greater in size or importance or degree.
Both words in one sentence
- This trope usually works better if applied by a child or teenage hero on an adult - the more respectable the adult before the soaking, the greater the effect.
Source: Wet Means Defeated -
Even then, while her maturity is greater than a child of her years, it's never adult.
Source: Young and In Charge - It has a largely adult cast (rather than the teenaged protagonists of the other two films), has a greater emphasis on comedy and treats the visions rather differently.
Source: Contested Sequel
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Greater and Adult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/greater
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Greater or Adult. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/greater.
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