What in your opinion or definition about growing up and What is the opposite of growing up?

Answer 1

Learning to take responsibility for one's own actions.
Always seeking to blame someone else.

Answer 2

In my view growing up means to keep on growing, even when the body cannot grow anymore, but the mind and spirit still can. This means always being open to new ideas and to be stretching the limits of your mind and intelligence, no matter how old you are.
The opposite to me means giving up once you have your spouse, nice house and 2.2 kids because you think you have been successful and have grown up beyond expectation. That is stagnation, which inevitably leads to growing down.

Answer 3

Not sure about the definition of growing up - There are many answers to that. The opposite to growing up is regression I suppose.

Answer 4

Grown ups have jobs mortgage, houses

not growing up meaning living with mom and dad until they die hoping they own the house so you and your friends can now have parties every-night and turn the place into a horrible horrible filthy party house then at 50 you decide to settle down get a job and have a few kids with that young new trophy wife.

Answer 5

I consider "growing up" as gaining maturity and wisdom through life experiences. Taking on responsibilities such as finishing school or going back for higher degrees, getting a career, having a family. Realizing that you are here for a purpose other than to please yourself: to reproduce and add valuable traits to the human gene pool for generations to come.

The opposite of growing up? Hmm, technically growing down, or maybe a person who is older but does not learn from their mistakes...

Answer 6

Well, I'm 40 and I still don't feel grown up. I suppose the opposite of growing up is staying immature.

Answer 7

Sarge has answered it pretty darn well.Well done.
My twopennorth is that to be grown up is to accept that you are responsible for your own actions.You realise that nobody owes you a living so you get on and earn your own.It may not be politically correct to say so but i dont regard anybody who is physicly able to earn a living yet chooses to live on the dole as grown up.
The opposite of growing up is to take no blame for your own actions.To accept no responsibility for what you do and to blame everybody and anybody else for your life conditions.
Grown up does not mean Mature.Nor does it mean old.
As for me? I am 45 years young and mostly grown up [greyfoxx smiles gently and teaseingly ] .

Answer 8

A person "grows up" when he/she learns to take responsibility for his/her own actions and stops behaving as if the world revolves around him/her. Many people never truly grow up because they constantly blame others for everything "bad" that has happened in their lives or they expect everyone and everything in their world to conform to their point of view (control freak). People who are grown up learn to pick their battles and compromise, those who don't are stubborn and will take their toys and go home if they don't get their way. People who are grown up will suck it up and pay the price if they get caught breaking the law, even if it's just a speeding ticket, while those who are not grown up try to find any and every way to weasel out of it. People who are grown up will give and don't always expect to get, those who don't will always ask "What's in it for me?" Does that help give you a better picture?

Answer 9

You pick a detail of yourself, fragment and put in on growth by identifying yourself with that detail...You do not know who you really are and what you actually doing, so detail would become abnormal, for you do not know moderation...as a result, reflections of it is countles growing illnesses within out flesh...

Answer 10

We are all still children grapling in the dark Jesus says "Unless you come as a little child you will not see the Kingdom of God" so I'd rather stay childlike in most ways... Adults talk such rubbish

Answer 11

The synonym for "Growing Up" is Maturity. The opposite is Immaturity.


Entry Word: maturity
Function: noun
Text: the state of being fully grown or developed
Synonyms adulthood, majority
Related Words manhood, womanhood; bloom, flush, heyday, prime; middle age, seniority

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Entry Word: mature
Function: adjective
Text: 1 fully grown or developed
Synonyms adult, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, matured, ripe, ripened
Related Words aged, aging (or ageing), old; golden, mellow
Near Antonyms blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, flourishing, flowering; undeveloped, unfinished, unformed
Antonyms green, immature, juvenile, unripened, young, youthful
2 having reached the date at which payment is required -- see DUE 1

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Entry Word: mature
Function: verb
Text: to become mature
Synonyms age, develop, grow, grow up, progress, ripen
Related Words mellow, soften; bloom, blossom, burgeon, flourish, flower; open, unfold; advance, evolve
Near Antonyms decline, deteriorate; dry, fade, shrivel, wane, wilt, wither; regress, retrogress, revert; backslide, lapse, return

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immature
One entry found for immature.
Main Entry: im·ma·ture
Pronunciation: "i-m&-'tur, -'tyur, -'chur
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin immaturus, from in- + maturus mature
1 archaic : PREMATURE
2 a : lacking complete growth, differentiation, or development b : having the potential capacity to attain a definitive form or state : CRUDE, UNFINISHED c : exhibiting less than an expected degree of maturity
- immature noun
- im·ma·ture·ly adverb
- im·ma·tu·ri·ty /-'tur-&-tE, -'tyur-, -'chur-/ noun

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