childish
adj/ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪʃ/
Etymology
Definitions
Immature in thought or behaviour.
- Your childish temper tantrums are not going to change my decision on this matter.
Suitable for or expected of a child.
- This game is very childish.
- She remembered, too, when, after a long childish illness, her father had carried her in his arms to the garden, […]
The neighborhood
- synonymimmature
- synonymsilly
- synonymunbecoming
- synonymjuvenile
- synonympuerile
- synonymkiddish
- synonymchild
- synonymchildlike
- synonymbabish
- synonymbabyish
- synonymbairnish
- synonymchildish
- antonymadultishantonym(s) of “behaving immaturely”
- antonymmatureantonym(s) of “behaving immaturely”
- antonymadultantonym(s) of “belonging to or suitable for a child”
- antonymadultlikeantonym(s) of “belonging to or suitable for a child”
- neighborchildlike
- neighborunsuitable
- neighboryoung
- neighborbrattish
- neighborbratty
- neighborpetulant
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for childish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA