Synonyms of growing up

growing up

verb

present participle of grow up

as in growing

to become mature

everyone has to grow up at some point in their lives

Synonyms & Similar Words

• growing
• progressing
• aging
• developing
• maturing
• ripening
• flowering
• getting on
• getting along
• blooming
• evolving
• softening
• blossoming
• flourishing
• burgeoning
• mellowing
• opening
• unfolding
• graying
• advancing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• wasting (away)
• declining
• worsening
• deteriorating
• decaying
• sinking
• drying
• degenerating
• drooping
• weakening
• fading
• waning
• sagging
• flagging
• withering
• returning
• reverting
• regressing
• shriveling
• wilting
• lapsing
• retrogressing
• backsliding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of growing up

As Brun was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Hawaii’s sugarcane plantations were shutting down amid growing international competition and the removal of a federal sugar-industry subsidy. — Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Kids who, like him, are growing up afraid and anxious because of domestic violence at home, and who need what Torre didn’t have — somewhere safe to go to for help. — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026

Their frequent family road trips, including multiple visits to Rock City, scripted her life growing up in Georgia. — Judith Garrison, AJC.com, 16 June 2026

Questions of the body, identity and growing up are also central to the selection. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 June 2026

For fans of those cultish works, which had their heyday around the time Refn was growing up and discovering them for himself, Her Private Hell plays like a nostalgic jewel box that literally looks like it was shot inside of a jewel box. — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026

Prison, death, growing up, cats. — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026

Richard Gere is an unbelievable actor, and again, like Ed, represents touch points in my growing up and learning about film. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 12 May 2026

The prosecutor said Mann would testify about Weinstein’s intense interest in her upbringing, asking her questions about growing up poor in a dairy farm town in Washington State, and being raised by an evangelical family that at times lived in a mobile home. — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026