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grown-up

grown-up adjective: adult, physically mature.

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.

Noun

grown-up (plural grown-ups)

  1. (childish, often) An adult.
    • 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.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9
    • Do you think the grown-ups will have the world fixed up by the time they hand it over to us?1988 June 8, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

grown-up meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Sanskrit

grown-up in Tamil

வளர்ந்தவர், வளர்ந்த

grown-up in Bengali

grown-up, mature, capable of earning one's living
উপযুক্ত upojukto

grown-up in Malayalam

adult, (grown) woman, (grown) man
പ്രായപൂർത്തിയായ മനുഷ്യൻ, മുതിർന്നവൻ, മുതിർന്നവൾ, അപഗണ്ഡൻ, പ്രായപൂർത്തിയായവൻ, പ്രായപൂർത്തിയായവൾ
mature, adult, of age
പ്രായപൂർത്തിയായ, പുരുഷപ്രായമെത്തിയ, വയസ്ഥ, സമ്പുഷ്ട, വളർച്ചയെത്തിയ, പ്രായപൂർത്തിവന്ന

grown-up in Sanskrit

adult, fully grown — see also adult
प्रौढ prauḍha, वृद्ध vṛddha
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grown-up in Arabic
بَالِغ bāliḡ

Synonyms of grown-up

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All synonyms of grown-up

Forms of grown-up

Adjective
comparativemore grown-up
superlativemost grown-up
alternative formgrownup
alternative formgrown up
Noun
pluralgrown-ups

Words formed from grown-up

Phrases with grown-up

Questions about grown-up

What does grown-up mean?
Grown-up means adult, physically mature.
What is grown-up in Tamil?
Grown-up in Tamil is வளர்ந்தவர், வளர்ந்த. See Grown-up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is grown-up?
Grown-up can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near grown-up in the dictionary

  1. grown out of
  2. grown some balls
  3. grown up
  4. grown ups
  5. grown-ass
  6. grown-up
  7. grown-up point
  8. grown-up points
  9. grown-up-ness
  10. grown-upness
  11. grown-ups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grown-up (page history and authors); grown-up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উপযুক্ত (Bengali) (page history and authors); grown-up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.

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