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adulty

adulty adjective: resembling or characteristic of an adult.

Adjective

adulty (comparative more adulty or adultier, superlative most adulty or adultiest)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of an adult.
    • And because I knew I was supposed to talk to him like he was an adult, I filtered everything I said and made sure it sounded adulty before it left my mouth.2013, Kristen Tracy, Bessica Lefter Bites Back, page 101
    • Part of me wanted to help Misa, but a bigger, uglier part of me was jealous that she had graduated on to adultier problems than surviving herself, at least on the surface.2024, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, “‘Ocean Avenue’ —Yellowcard (3:18)”, in Never Been Better: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN

Forms of adulty

comparativemore adulty
comparativeadultier
superlativemost adulty
superlativeadultiest

Origin of adulty

From adult + -y.

Questions about adulty

What does adulty mean?
Adulty means resembling or characteristic of an adult.
What part of speech is adulty?
Adulty is an adjective.

Words near adulty in the dictionary

  1. adults in the room
  2. adultship
  3. adultspeak
  4. adultswear
  5. adultwear
  6. adulty
  7. adumber
  8. adumbered
  9. adumbering
  10. adumbers
  11. adumbral

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