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Another word for childish

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Adjective

  1. Of or characteristic of a child, especially in immaturity

    See also:

    youth

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Another word for childish

Modifier

  1. Having qualities of a child

    See also:

    young

    simple

    naive

    Antonyms:

  2. Silly or stupid

    See also:

    stupid

    silly

  3. Childlike because of senility

    See also:

    old

Synonym Study

  • Childish and childlike are both applied to persons of any age in referring to characteristics or qualities considered typical of a child, childish suggesting unfavorable qualities such as immaturity, foolishness, petulance, etc. and childlike, the favorable, as innocence, guilelessness, trustfulness, etc.
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Sentence Examples

  • It was a childish thing for her to do.

  • It was childish and she should get over it.

  • I've had about enough of your childish pranks.

  • Some are said to maintain that it was an abbreviation of a childish nickname, "le petit volontaire."

  • How my childish imagination glowed with the splendour of their enterprise!

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