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• n  a fully developed person from maturity onward
• s  (of animals) fully developed

• Bad buzz has recently hit the summer's big grownup drama, Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, and the big grownup comedy, The Stepford Wives.
• She did her first big Hollywood movie, Frank Capra's "Ladies of Leisure," when she was 22; yet she already acted like a grownup, and showed how to merge energy and maturity.
• We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater.

• adult
• big
• full-grown
• fully grown
• grown

• juvenile

News & Articles

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• The Best Trick Shots Are the Ones Taken Through the Sunroofs of Speeding Fiats
  There’s nothin’ better than tossing around the ol’ pigskin with your pals on a warm summer day. Except for when babies wear tiny versions of grownup shoes. That’s pretty great. Or the rush you get when you peel the glue off the back of a gift card. That’s good, too.
  June 25, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Reese Witherspoon in The Gossip Girls (blog)
  Reese told press, "I think the most important thing is to be a grownup, and not let any kind of feelings affect how you deal with your children. I'm very lucky in that we raise our kids to just be happy. I think the most important thing is the...
• Richard Gere in PopMatters
  Irving wasn't malevolent - his personal demons were what was involved. He's really not a grownup,says Gere of the still-living author. "He'sa Peter Pan personality, which allowed him the ability to not see the impossibility of it all. Of...
• John Edwards in News 14 Carolina
  You know between all the allegations of Hillary [Clinton] serving on the Wal-Mart board and Senator [Barack] Obama working for a slum lord, I was proud to represent the grownup wing of the Democratic party last night,said Edwards.