Childlike

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Like or befitting a child, as in innocence, trustfulness, or candor.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. innocent and trustful; credulous; artless
  • adj. of, like, or suitable for a child; meek; submissive
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling a child or that which is proper to childhood; becoming to or characteristic of a child; hence, submissive, dutiful, trustful, artless, inexperienced, etc.
  • Synonyms Childlike, Childish, Infantile, Infantine. Childlike and childish express that which is characteristic of a child, the former applying to that which is worthy of approbation, or at least does not merit disapproval, and the latter usually to that which is not: as, a childlike freedom from guile; a childish petulance. To express that which belongs to the period of childhood, without qualifying it as good or bad, child or childhood is often used in composition: as, child-toil, childhood-days. Infantile and infantine are applied to the first stages of childhood; no clear distinction between them has yet been established. See youthful.
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  • adj. exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity
  • adj. befitting a young child
    • Equivalent
    naive    naïf    immature    young   
    Form
    childlikeness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    meek    submissive    dutiful    childish    naive   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    boyish    girlish    naive    frank    wistful   
     
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