Childish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or suitable for a child or childhood: a high, childish voice; childish nightmares.
  • adj. Marked by or indicating a lack of maturity; puerile: tired of your childish pranks.
  • adj. Not complicated; simple.
  • adj. Affected mentally by old age; senile.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or suitable for a child.
  • adj. Behaving immaturely.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
  • adj. Puerile; trifling; weak.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or belonging to a child or to childhood: as, “sweet childish days,” Wordsworth, To a Butterfly.
  • Like or characteristic of a child or what is peculiar to childhood; especially, in disparaging use, trifling, puerile, silly, weak, etc.: as, childish amusements; childish fear.
  • Synonyms Childlike, Infantile, etc. See childlike.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. indicating a lack of maturity
  • Equivalent
    immature   
    Antonym
    manly    womanly    womanish    old   
    Cross Reference
    babyish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    puerile    trifling    weak    childlike    childly    juvenile    youthful    brattish    kiddish    boyish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boyish    foolish    passionate    childlike    innocent    pathetic    trivial    vulgar