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comparative more adulty · comparative adultier · superlative most adulty · superlative adultiest

1. informalResembling or characteristic of an adult.

   And because I knew I was supposed to talk to him like he was an adult, I filtered everything I said and made sure it sounded adulty before it left my mouth.

   2013, Kristen Tracy, Bessica Lefter Bites Back, page 101

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   Part of me wanted to help Misa, but a bigger, uglier part of me was jealous that she had graduated on to adultier problems than surviving herself, at least on the surface.

   2024, Leanne Toshiko Simpson, “‘Ocean Avenue’ —Yellowcard (3:18)”, in Never Been Better: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN