Meaning

Having excessively or inappropriately adult characteristics..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having excessively or inappropriately adult characteristics.
2. (biology) Exhibiting hypermorphosis; Having features that exaggerate adult morphology.

Example Sentences

As matters now stand, "programs" too often result in the formation of individuals whose intelligence may be hyperadult, but whose affective and moral sensibility is childish.

It was slow enough now that I could take a good look at her — I couldn't decide her age, but there seemed to be a youthfulness to her that belied her hyperadult authority.

Her students - children living in a hyperadult world where playground disputes were settled with 9 mms - eventually drove her out of teaching.

I mean, most people get off on stuff that goes back to puberty or even earlier, and 'I'm so aroused' sounds so hyperadult.

When sexual maturity is delayed development of the organism may continue over a longer time span. this extension of the growth phase facilitates the formation of a “hyperadult” morphology and a large size, a situation referred to as hypermorphosis.

Vrba continues by stating that this '. . . can result in a major reorganization - or "shuffling" of body proportions such that some characters become larger and others smaller, some hyperadult and others more juvenilized' (1996, p. 1 ).

This suggests a heterochronic event, such as a hypermorphosis (i.e., hyperadult size and shape, McNamara, 1986).

Word Forms

• more hyperadult
• most hyperadult

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Use hyperadult when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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