adulthood

Other forms of adulthood

plural

adulthoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adulthood

What does adulthood mean?

adulthood means "the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adulthood?

adulthood has 3 syllables: a-dul-thood. The stress falls on "dul". In IPA it is /əˈdʌltˌhʊd/.

What is another word for adulthood?

Close synonyms include maturity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adulthood a common word?

adulthood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with adulthood?

19 words rhyme with adulthood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.