grows up
Reaches full maturity
Grows up describes the process of maturing from childhood to adulthood, encompassing physical development, emotional maturation, and the acquisition of adult responsibilities.
When someone grows up, they progress through life stages toward independence: She grew up in a small town in Ohio.
The phrase can also describe where or how childhood was spent: He grew up poor but happy.
In figurative use, telling someone to grow up means they should stop being immature or childish.
- developCause gradual growth
- adulthoodState of being grown
- maturityFull growth achieved
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- coming of ageReaching adult status
young adult · upbringing · independence · self-awareness · puberty · find oneself · find your footing · real world · first job · responsibility · adolescence · aging · rite of passage · resilience · graduation · spread your wings · leave the nest · wiser
grows upregresses
Returns to prior condition
infantilizes · Peter Pan syndrome · arrested development · man-child · failure to launch
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