grown-up

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grown-up

adjective more grown-up · most grown-up · grownup · grown up

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

noun grown-ups · grownup · grown up

  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.

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