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grown-up en · ADJ

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Meanings

1. Adult, physically mature.
2. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for adults.
3. Having a mature outlook.

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Synonyms

adultish · mature · grown up · R-rated · mature · grown up · adult · grown up · grown up · adultish · grown-ass · adulty · adult · full-grown · mature · mature · grownup · big · adultlike · grownup · 18+ · adult · developed · grown

Translations (32)

sk dospelý (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · fi aikuinen (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · ru взро́слый (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · sh о̀дра̄стао (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · grc ἁδρός (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · da voksen (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · gl de maiores (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · gl adulta (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · la pubēs (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · sh òdrāstao (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · be даро́слы (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · fr adulte (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · eo plenkreskulo (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · cs dospělý (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · bg въ́зрастен (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · sa प्रौढ (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · sa वृद्ध (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · it adulto (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · grc τέλειος (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · gl adulto (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · mk возрасен (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · sv vuxen (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · uk доро́слий (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · txb śrāy (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · de erwachsen (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · fr grand (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · nb voksen (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · rgn adùlt (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · pl dorosły (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · ar بَالِغ (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · la adultus (adult, fully grown — see also adult) · sl odrasel (adult, fully grown — see also adult)

grown-up en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (childish, often) An adult.
   • Do you think the grown-ups will have the world fixed up by the time they hand it over to us? 1988 June 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
   • Because we're grown-ups now, and it's our turn to decide what that means. 2006 August 9, Randall Munroe, “Grownups”, in xkcd (webcomic):
   • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:

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grown-up point