Definitions for grown-up

grown-up grown-up

Spelling: [grohn-uhp]
IPA: /ˈgroʊnˈʌp/

Grown-Up is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in grown-up (-gnopruw).

Definitions for grown-up

adjective

  1. having reached the age of maturity.
  2. characteristic of or suitable for adults:

Origin of grown-up

First recorded in 1625-35; adj. use of verb phrase grow up

Examples for grown-up

She treated her as an equal, as a grown-up woman of experience.

The third walks unsteadily, led by a grown-up holding his hand.

This fact is simply that a child is a nuisance to a grown-up person.

Despite being a grown-up conspiracy theorist, it seems that Charlie couldn't resist running home to daddy with his wacky beliefs.

Otherwise, Hollywood may give up on interesting, grown-up movies altogether.

Right now I was focused on legs, and I wondered if grown-up beds were only for people with two whole legs.

And because he was a grown-up male in a position of power, he walked away.

It was the first time that any one had addressed me by that grown-up title.

At last the grown-up sisters absorbed all of Mammy's spare time.

That was her grown-up crinoline, swing-swinging as she went.

Word Value for grown-up
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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