# adulted

Pronunciation: US say "uh-DULT-id" /əˈdʌltɪd/; UK/AUS say "AD-ult-id" /ˈæd.ʌlt.ɪd/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of adult. *(informal)* — simple past and past participle of adult
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of adult. Use it for the past, or after has, have or had.
   - _He adulted hard this week, filing his taxes a full month early._
   - _We finally adulted and set up a budget for the household._

## Adjective

2. Having reached full growth and maturity. *(rare)*
   - Simple: Fully grown and developed, not young or still growing.
   - _The adulted form of the insect bears little resemblance to its larval stage._
   - _Researchers compared the growth rates of adulted and juvenile salmon._

## Origin

Formed from "adult" combined with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/adulted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).