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grownish

grownish adjective: somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish.

Adjective

grownish (comparative more grownish, superlative most grownish)

  1. Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish
    • She brushed past the dry blooms while she took his measure. So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m.2000, Toni Cade Bambara, Those Bones are Not My Child, page 563
    • Correcting her grownish little one's sentence structure, “We 'have' been over this, or we've been over this. I didn't raise you to speak like trash, or smoke like trash. Let me smell your breath.”(Can we date this quote?), Rotting Strawberries, CatuKe Monique, page 143

Forms of grownish

comparativemore grownish
superlativemost grownish

Origin of grownish

From grown + -ish.

Questions about grownish

What does grownish mean?
Grownish means somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish.
What part of speech is grownish?
Grownish is an adjective.

Words near grownish in the dictionary

  1. grown-ups
  2. grownd
  3. grownds
  4. growne
  5. grownies
  6. grownish
  7. grownt
  8. grownup
  9. grownupness
  10. grownups
  11. growroom

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