Adult
Adult adjective - Dealing in or with explicitly sexual material.
Usage example: an adult magazine
Gross
Gross adjective - Depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society.
Adult and gross are semantically related in euphemistic topic. Sometimes you can use "Adult" instead an adjective "Gross".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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John Kricfalusi, creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show, was asked by fans to make an episode of the then-newly launched series Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon full of nothing but gross-out jokes.
Source: Literal Genie - Gross-Out Comedies like Animal House and Porky's were originally made with an adult audience in mind (specifically, they were meant to be nostalgic throwbacks for adults who were in high school or college when those movies took place).
Source: Audience Shift -
Vulgar Humor: The video game adaptation Stupid Invaders features adult humor with strong language and a lot of gross moments.
Source: Western Animation / Space Goofs
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Gross and Adult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 27, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/gross
Adult & Gross. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/gross>.
Gross or Adult. 2016. Accessed July 27, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/adult/gross.
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