grownish

adj

Etymology

From grown + -ish.

  1. inherited from growen
  2. formed as grownish — “grown + -ish

Definitions

  1. Somewhat grown or mature

    Somewhat grown or mature; resembling or befitting a grown-up; adultish

    • She brushed past the dry blooms while she took his measure. So grown, thirteen and grownish, casually out for a stroll at three a.m.
    • Correcting her grownish little one's sentence structure, “We 'have' been over this, or we've been over this. I didn't raise you to speak like trash, or smoke like trash. Let me smell your breath.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA