childish

[Child·ish]

If you act immature or bratty, you're being childish. A childish dinner guest might pout because you didn't make dessert.

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Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

Adjective S.
indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior"


a.
Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

a.
Puerile; trifling; weak.


Childish

Child"ish, a. 1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak.
Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent.
&hand; Childish, as applied tc persons who are grown up, is in a disparaging sense; as, a childish temper.

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

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Usage Examples

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

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Other Usage Examples

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

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