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Meaning of adultist | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Biased in favor of adults (and against children); exhibiting adultism.

not-comparable

Examples

“I'm ambivalent about being called a girl. I suspect that at least some of our dislike of this term is related to the systematic and brutal oppression of young people […] Why — except that we are adultist are we so insulted by being called young?”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

adultlike adultocentric adultophilic adulty adumbral adumbrant