adulting

English

Etymology

adult +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: a‧dult‧ing

Noun

adulting (uncountable)

1. (slang) Engaging in activities typically associated with adulthood.
   • 2013, Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps:
2. (nonstandard) Adultery.
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Verb

adulting

1. present participle and gerund of adult
   • 2007, Jane Humphries, “ 'Because they are too menny...' children, mothers, and fertility decline: the evidence from working-class autobiographies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries”, in Angélique Janssens, editor, Gendering the fertility decline in the Western world, Population, family, and society, volume 7, Bern [u.a.]: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 116:

     Trends in the relative costs of child rearing cannot be separated from the economic, social and cultural consequences of both the gendering and adulting of labour markets.

   • 2010, Kenneth Jedding, Higher education: on life, landing a job, and everything else they didn't teach you in college, Emmaus, PA: Rodale, →ISBN, page 210:

     Then how about this: How about out-adulting the person who's driving you crazy. In other words, being the bigger adult.

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