Childish synonyms
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Part of speech:
Not finished or perfected; incomplete
Pretentious; inflated in style or manner
Characteristic of youth or immaturity; childish
Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish:
Like or characteristic of a child; innocent, trusting, etc.
Silly or trivial, esp. in a childish way or as a result of immaturity
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naive (related)
Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
Impossible to take seriously; silly:
Insignificant; trivial:
Of a claim or assertion in litigation, that it lacks merit or substance; often a pejorative term, implying bad faith or negligence by the pleading party.
wise (antonym)
(Historical) Having knowledge of black magic, etc.
Crude, simple, rough, uncivilized, etc.
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petulant (related)
Having or showing a tendency to make much of small matters
The definition of youthful is someone who is young and vigorous, or is something that has the characteristics of someone young such as active and new.
Of, like, or fit for a boy or boys
Developing from childhood to maturity; growing up
sophisticated (antonym)
Complicated, especially of complex technology.
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silly (related)
Irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.
adult (antonym)
Relating to, intended for, or befitting adults:
sensible (antonym)
Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
Not yet fully processed, especially:
mature (antonym)
The definition of mature refers to someone or something that is full grown or adult, either physically or in terms of behavior and attitude.
serious (antonym)
The definition of serious is showing deep thought, not joking, or a situation that requires careful thought.
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simple (related)
Not pretentious, guileful, or deceitful; humble or sincere:
young (related)
Being in an early period of life or growth; not old
The definition of credulous is someone who is too eager to believe things, often without thinking them through.
brainless (related)
in one's second childhood
Childlike because of senility
youth (related)
Of or characteristic of a child, especially in immaturity
Intended for babies.
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doited
Afflicted with weak-mindedness, usually caused by senility
mischievous (related)
pathetic (related)
lascivious (related)
crass (related)
self-indulgent (related)
vulgar (related)
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banal (related)
masochistic (related)
sarcastic (related)
(Phonet.) Designating c sounded as in voice or g sounded as in age
Lacking or resulting from a lack of intelligence:
Showing the marked deterioration often accompanying old age, esp. mental impairment characterized by confusion, memory loss, etc.
in one's dotage
Childlike because of senility
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old (related)
A grammatical intensifier, often used in describing something positive. (Mostly in idioms like good old, big old and little old, any old and some old.)
gleeful (related)
Of, like, or suitable to a girl or girlhood
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.
Find another word for childish. In this page you can discover 53 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for childish, like: immature, sophomoric, juvenile, infantile, childlike, kiddish, puerile, naive, babyish, absurd and foolish.