adulting
English
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: a‧dult‧ing
Etymology
adult + -ing
Noun
adulting (uncountable)
- (US, slang) Engaging in activities typically associated with adulthood.
- 2013, Kelly Williams Brown, Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
- (nonstandard) Adultery.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:adulting.
Verb
adulting
- present participle of adult
- 2007, Humphries, Jane, “ '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, Jedding, Kenneth, 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.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:adulting.
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