adulting

9.8

Doing everyday grown-up chores like paying bills or cooking

noun
/əˈdʌltɪŋ/

Slang

: 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.

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Examples

Learning to cook is an essential part of adulting that many young people overlook.
There is no like adulting class in high school.

Sara Dietschy
Your girls actually going to be doing adulting things, you know.
Some parts of adulting is fun and some parts are not so fun and this stuff is not so fun.

Michelle Choi
But but being an adult, adulting is a whole other thing.

Dr. Mayim Bialik
But yeah, wow, that was that was adulting at its finest, man Wow.

Brett Conti
I wish I learnt in school how to organize adult life admin because it's the worst thing to do.
But for that, there's Zocdoc, the healthcare app that makes adulting that much easier.
Handling finances and paying bills are key activities in the process of adulting.

How Responsible

responsibility

∞ 2.7

adulting

Slang

9.8

shirking

1 6.5

Surface Forms

adulting singular

adultings plural

Morphology

adulting = adult (semi-transparent) = adult + ing

The noun is formed regularly from the verb adult with -ing, so the structure is easy to recognize.

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.