grownup

1. 1.

   (of animals) fully developed

   “an adult animal”

   “a grown woman”

   Synonymsadultbigfull-grownfully growngrown

   Similarmature

   animal

Other forms of grownup

plural

grownups·

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 grownup

What does grownup mean?

grownup means "a fully developed person from maturity onward". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grownup?

grownup has 2 syllables: grow-nup. The stress falls on "grow". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹoʊˌnʌp/.

What is another word for grownup?

Close synonyms include adult, adult, big, full-grown, fully grown. 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 grownup a common word?

grownup is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 grownup?

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