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

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

On Tuesday, Donny took to Instagram to share some thoughts about growing up and performing alongside Alan in the Sixties and Seventies. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2026

While growing up, in the San Fernando Valley, Levin saw fame’s capacity to protect certain people from the consequences of the law. — Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026