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  1. Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children

    Dec 21, 2012 · "adult children" is sometimes used in contexts where age is important, such as a form requiring someone to list all children under 18 and all adult children living with them. And someone …

  2. ChatGPT 不再限制用户制作成人内容,此举何意? - 知乎

    2月13日消息,OpenAI发布了其《模型规范》的扩展版本,内容涵盖了AI模型如何处理争议性话题、用户定制化…

  3. Adult children? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Apr 18, 2017 · "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood.

  4. What is the word for an adult who is not mature?

    May 11, 2014 · What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy himself?

  5. Specific word for "grown-up children"? [duplicate]

    Mar 5, 2014 · Is there a specific word for adult offspring? If all of your "children" are now in their adulthood, is there a specific word to refer to them?

  6. Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock

    Dec 6, 2018 · American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp. a male that has had its sexual organs removed. (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia describes an ox …

  7. terminology - synonym for child-like [adult] - English Language

    May 18, 2015 · There is a specific term, and it keeps evading me, that refers to an adult who still embraces child-like wonder, curiosity, etc.... Not inferring a child-like or infantile adult, i.e. someone …

  8. Where in the U.S. do people change the stress of umbrella, adult and …

    I think that I change the stress in "adult" depending on part of speech—it's always the second syllable for the noun (and verb), but often first syllable for the adjective.

  9. What do you call a person who has a relationship with a much younger …

    Aug 20, 2015 · cradle-snatcher someone who has a romantic or sexual relationship with a much younger partner (thefreedictionary.com) You could try forcing a "neologism" such as juvenophile, but …

  10. Word meaning project adult characteristics onto children?

    Dec 14, 2018 · I'm looking for a word that is similar to anthropomorphize but that means projecting adult characteristics onto children. I have a pre-verbal child and it is very easy to make up reasons for her …