Adult, n. Person of mature age, grown up person.
Adulterate, v. a. Debase, corrupt, vitiate, sophisticate, alloy, dash, deteriorate, make impure.
Adulteration, n. Debasement, corruption, deterioration, sophistication.
Adulterous, a. Unchaste, rakish, dissolute.
Adultery, n. Violation of the marriage-bed.
Adumbrate, v. a. 1. Shadow, foreshadow, shadow out, shadow forth.
2. Typify, represent, symbolize, show, denote, stand for.
Adumbration, n. 1. Shadowing forth, faint sketch, faint representation, indistinct image.
2. Type, image, shadow, symbol.
Aduncous, a. Crooked, hooked, bent, curved.
Advance, v. a. 1. Promote, aggrandize, exalt, elevate, dignify, raise to preferment, raise to higher rank.
2. Forward, further, promote, improve, strengthen, make better, encourage the progress of.
3. Allege, adduce, propose, offer, assign, propound, bring forward, lay down.
4. Pay beforehand, supply beforehand, furnish on credit.
5. Increase (as price), enhance, augment, make greater, make higher.
Advance, v. n. 1. Proceed, progress, make progress, make way, get forward, go forward, get on, go on, get along, come on, gain ground.
2. Improve, grow, thrive, make improvement.
Advance, n. 1. Progress, progression, march, way, moving forward.
2. Improvement, growth, advancement.
3. Payment beforehand, anticipated payment.
4. Tender, offer, proposal, proposition.
5. Increase (of price), enhancement.
Advance-guard, n. Vanguard.
Advancement, n. 1. Progress, progression, proficiency.
2. Promotion, preferment, elevation, exaltation, aggrandizement.
3. Improvement, advance, growth.
Advantage, n. 1. Favorable opportunity, vantage-ground, superior situation or condition, best estate, best plight.
2. Superiority, ascendency, pre-eminence, upper-hand.
3. Benefit, avail, profit, gain, emolument, return, utility, expediency, good, weal, service, blessing.
4. Behalf, behoof, account, interest.
5. Privilege, prerogative, convenience, accommodation, easement.
Advantage, v. a. Benefit, profit, serve, help, avail, advance the interest of, be of advantage to.
Advantageous, a. Beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, for one's advantage, for one's interest, for one's good.
Advent, n. 1. Arrival, coming, approach.
2. Coming of Christ.