'grownup' is correct and usable in written English
'Grownup' is an informal term for an adult, and is often used when referring to adults in comparison to children. Example sentence: I enjoy spending time with my grownup friends because we can have more complex conversations than I have with my younger siblings.
"It felt like the grownup version of Daphne and Celeste," says DiConcetto. "A cooler sound, but also a shout out to our past".
It might look like heaven, but there are hardly any beaches, because the villages are all at the top of steep volcanic cliffs, and it's really expensive and full of couples on luxury honeymoons, and there's nothing for kids to do, just loads of grownup restaurants where people gaze at each other like moony swans", well, I think you can probably guess what's coming next.
The nods for Wilson, West and the big one, best drama series (where it is the only debut season to compete) are a vote of confidence for its sheer quality – it's a grownup, sophisticated drama that deserves the love, much like Masters of Sex last time.
"The majority of businesses will say [in private] we did the right thing by supporting the economy, but I'm grownup – I'm not expecting them to write lots of letters suggesting that".
By "real book" I mean a book that looked like a proper grownup book, 300 or more pages of solid text.
"He reminds us of the grownup bully "Biff" in the "Back to the Future" movie series," wrote Publisher Joseph W. McQuaid in an editorial on 27 December.
During the last years of his life, he was a rather solitary man who was separated from his wife and whose grownup children were scattered.
He was grownup enough by then to try to make sure that [his daughter] Scottie would not be so disabled.
Each guest should, at some point, look around and offer a lukewarm comment about how "grownup" it is to be having a dinner party.
Supposedly plucked at random from a dictionary by a coterie of war-evading young writers and artists in Zurich in 1916, "dada" was a two-syllable nonsense poem and a craftily meaningless slogan, signalling a rejection of grownup seriousness at a time when grownups by the million were shooting one another to pieces on the Western Front for reasons that rang ever more hollow.
"A lot of these men are little guys in grownup suits," Halliwell, who has a three-year-old daughter, said.
