Word.ws English Dictionary

adultescent

adultescent noun: an adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.

Noun

adultescent (plural adultescents)

  1. An adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.
    • 1996, Precision Marketing 17 June 21/4 Consider the importance of adultescents to the music biz—they make up over a third of the audience at gigs, but have more cash to spend than teenagers.
    • First he was known as the ultimate adultescent, a thirty/fortysomething who admitted to being fixated with football and music and stuck at the mental/emotional age of 14.2001, Andrew Calcutt, Brit Cult: An A-Z of British Pop Culture, page 237

Synonyms of adultescent

Forms of adultescent

pluraladultescents

Origin of adultescent

Blend of adult + adolescent.

Words that rhyme with adultescent

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about adultescent

What does adultescent mean?
Adultescent means an adult who continues to participate in and enjoy youth culture.
What part of speech is adultescent?
Adultescent is a noun.
What is the plural of adultescent?
The plural of adultescent is adultescents.

Words near adultescent in the dictionary

  1. adulterously
  2. adulterousness
  3. adulters
  4. adultery
  5. adultescence
  6. adultescent
  7. adultescents
  8. adulthood
  9. adulthoods
  10. adulticidal
  11. adulticide

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adultescent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “adultescent.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/adultescent. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.