Another word for childish
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Adjective
Of or characteristic of a child, especially in immaturity
- Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
- Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
- Not fully grown or developed; young.
- Of or characteristic of a young animal that has not reached sexual maturity:
- Characteristic of, intended for, or appropriate for children or young people:
- Of or relating to infants or infancy.
- Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish:
- Not fully grown or developed:
- Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity:
- An immature animal; a juvenile.
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Another word for childish
Modifier
Having qualities of a child
- Yielding readily to pressure or weight:
- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Not tense and therefore capable of absorbing the impact of a ball or puck and of catching, receiving, or controlling it:
- The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
- Something green in color.
- The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.
- Having few parts or features; not complicated or elaborate:
- Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
- Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part:
- Of or characteristic of a sophomore.
- Exhibiting great immaturity and lack of judgment:
- Of, relating to, or undergoing adolescence.
- Characteristic of adolescence; immature:
- A young person who has undergone puberty but who has not reached full maturity.
- Characteristic of or befitting a girl:
- Characteristic of or befitting a boy:
- Of or relating to an early or original stage or state; primeval:
- Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution:
- Having developed early in the evolutionary history of a group:
- Characterized by youth; young:
- Typical of or suggesting youth:
- In an early stage of development; new:
- Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
- Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
- Not fully grown or developed; young.
- Of or characteristic of a young animal that has not reached sexual maturity:
- Characteristic of, intended for, or appropriate for children or young people:
- Of or relating to infants or infancy.
- Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; childish:
- A very young child; an infant.
- An unborn child; a fetus.
- The youngest member of a family or group.
- Not fully grown or developed:
- Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity:
- An immature animal; a juvenile.
- Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor.
Silly or stupid
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
- Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
- Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
Childlike because of senility
- Relating to or having diminished cognitive function, as when memory is impaired, because of old age.
- Being a disease or condition whose cause is primarily advanced age:
- At the end of an erosion cycle:
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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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