adulting
- noun
- /əˈdʌltɪŋ/
- Slang
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adultización
- Many people feel overwhelmed by adulting when they first move out on their own.
But yeah, wow, that was that was adulting at its finest, man Wow.
- But yeah, wow, that was that was adulting at its finest, man Wow.
- But but being an adult, adulting is a whole other thing.
- There is no like adulting class in high school.
- I'm doing all sorts of fun posts and trials of my of my attempted adulting.
- Some parts of adulting is fun and some parts are not so fun and this stuff is not so fun.
- My concern is adulting would be that they're living.
Examples
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Learning to cook is an essential part of adulting that many young people overlook.
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There is no like adulting class in high school.
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Your girls actually going to be doing adulting things, you know.
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Some parts of adulting is fun and some parts are not so fun and this stuff is not so fun.
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But but being an adult, adulting is a whole other thing.
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But yeah, wow, that was that was adulting at its finest, man Wow.
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I wish I learnt in school how to organize adult life admin because it's the worst thing to do.
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But for that, there's Zocdoc, the healthcare app that makes adulting that much easier.
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Handling finances and paying bills are key activities in the process of adulting.
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Morphology
Etymology
The word adulting comes from adult (meaning 'grown-up') plus the action ending -ing, and it started as a playful way to talk about 'doing adult things' like paying bills or cooking; so it means behaving in a responsible, grown-up way.