Definition of adultescent in English:
adultescent
noun adʌlˈtɛs(ə)ntˌad(ə)lˈtesənt
informal A middle-aged person whose clothes, interests, and activities are typically associated with youth culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- For a bunch of adultescents pushing 40, you can't get much sexier than that.
- But while much attention has been paid to live-at-home ‘adultescents,’ little has been said about their parents, many of whom are Baby Boomers who greet their boomerang kids with open arms.
- Apart from the fact that today's ‘adultescent’ fifty-somethings would never buy anything called slacks?
- Still young enough to think we're hip (especially in this age of the adultescent) but old enough to have a reasonable disposable income.
- A new name has even been coined for people who don't act their age: adultescents.
Origin
1990s: blend of adult and adolescent.