grown-up

See also: grownup and grown up

English

Alternative forms

• grownup, grown up

Adjective

grown-up (comparative more grown-up, superlative most grown-up)

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

Synonyms

• (pertaining to adults): adulty; see also Thesaurus:adultlike
• (suitable for adults): mature; see also Thesaurus:for adults
• (adult: physically fully developed): developed; see also Thesaurus:full-grown
• (adult: maturely behaved): adultish; see also Thesaurus:mature

Translations

adult, fully grown — See also translations at adult

• Arabic: بَالِغ‎ (bāliḡ)
• Belarusian: даро́слы (darósly)
• Bulgarian: въ́зрастен (bg) (vǎ́zrasten)
• Czech: dospělý (cs)
• Danish: voksen (da)
• Finnish: aikuinen (fi)
• French: adulte (fr), grand (fr) m
• Galician: adulto m, adulta f, de maiores
• German: erwachsen (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἁδρός (hadrós), τέλειος m (téleios)

• Italian: adulto (it)
• Latin: adultus (la), pubēs
• Macedonian: возрасен (vozrasen)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: voksen (no)

• Polish: dorosły (pl)
• Romagnol: adùlt
• Russian: взро́слый (ru) (vzróslyj)
• Sanskrit: प्रौढ (sa) m (prauḍha), वृद्ध (sa) (vṛddha)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀дра̄стао

  Roman: òdrāstao (sh)

• Slovak: dospelý (sk)
• Slovene: odrasel
• Swedish: vuxen (sv)
• Tocharian B: śrāy
• Ukrainian: доро́слий (doróslyj)

Noun

grown-up (plural grown-ups)

1. An adult. (used especially by children)
   • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, OCLC 491297620, page 9:

     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.

Translations

an adult — see adult

References

• Compact Oxford English Dictionary
• American Heritage Dictionary

Anagrams

• upgrown