Adult or adult means grown up or mature; of the age of majority, usually 18 or 21--
They need adult supervision.
You'll be an adult next year, you should be thinking about your future.
A dolt or a dolt ( two words, almost rhymes with adult ) means one ( a ) blockhead or simpleton ( dolt )--
Use your head; don't be a dolt.
He's a dolt; he says the silliest things.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"As an adult, he looked back and remembered what a dolt he had been as a teenager."
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