grownup

Examples

• All

• - Least I've got a real grownup job.

  Paintball Massacre (2020)

• Sometimes grownups need alone time.

  Big Eyes (2014)

• I wish I was the type of grownup who could negotiate how much I make.

  Blog text (16)

• I am practically a grownup.

  Monster House (2006)

• We know how all the grownups feel.

  Rich Kids (1979)

• The grownups have to talk.

  The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

• There were lots of kids all running around, but the grownups weren't paying attention.

  Academic text (1998)

• Maybe he wasn't a dictator; maybe he was just a grownup talking down to a kid.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Isn't this fun? The grownups get to eat with the children.

  Fiction book (1990)

• As a grownup, you have to make important decisions about your future.

Synonyms

A

adult

vsgrownup

∞ 1.0

A person who is fully grown and no longer a child

is focused more on the social contrast with childhood than on age definition

G

grown-up

vsgrownup

131 2.3

A person who is an adult, not a child

is the general term for a fully developed person rather than a contrast

Antonyms

C

child

∞ 1.0

A young person who is not yet an adult, often a son or daughter

Y

youth

104 1.1

The state of being young and full of energy

How Adult

old person

175 1.0

middle-aged

133 2.6

grownup

64 1.1

teenager

885 1.0

child

∞ 1.0

infant

411 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology