Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
adultescent .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word adultescents.
Examples
-
Why is it that young adults are now referred to as "adultescents" and prolong behaviour that would be appropriate to a fifteen year old well into their twenties and even into their thirties?
Get in on Life... 2007
-
I like "adultescents", even if Beige sounds a bit like the Grinch.
-
And though 'The Opposite of Adults' is all rather pleasant, one cannot help but feel that any song about adultescents [I WILL NEVER USE THAT WORD AGAIN AS LONG AS I LIVE] really do not need more encouraging vis a vis not growing up.
Drowned In Sound // Feed Wendy Roby 2010
-
The unmarried adultescents swarming the cities, the DINKs who've priced families with children out of the better suburbs, the kids who never read - these are Hollywood's most prized demographics, and
GreenCine Daily 2009
-
She wants to mingle with these kinds of adultescents.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.