Childlike
Childlike adjective - Befitting a young child.
Usage example: childlike charm
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Synonyms for Childlike
Immature
Immature adjective - Being in the early stage of life, growth, or development.
Usage example: immature frogs are called “tadpoles”
Childlike is a synonym for immature in childish topic. You can use "Childlike" instead an adjective "Immature", if it concerns topics such as youthful.
Nearby Word: immaturity
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Related pairs
- tender and childlike
- tender and immature
- adolescent and childlike
- adolescent and immature
- juvenile and childlike
- juvenile and immature
- green and childlike
- green and immature
- unsophisticated and childlike
- unsophisticated and immature
- naive and childlike
- naive and immature
- callow and childlike
- callow and immature
Both words in one sentence
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Edna, just like the kids do; suggesting she recognizes Betty as immature and childlike.
Source: Series / Mad Men - Ping-Pong Naïveté: All of the puppets can switch between being immature and childlike to being far wiser than their stated ages would suggest.
Source: Series / The Sooty Show -
She's very beautiful and is just as powerful as the real Kasumi, and yet is very immature and childlike, to the extent that she breaks Kasumi out her cell at DOATEC Germany with the intent to kill her and have Hayate all to herself.
Source: Psychopathic Manchild
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