childish
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2.8
- adjective
- /ˈtʃaɪldɪʃ/
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infantil
- It was childish of him to throw a tantrum over a lost game.
- too childish
- seem childish
- in a childish way
I just thought it looks a bit childish and I don't know.
- I just thought it looks a bit childish and I don't know.
- They, they put away the childish things and they, they do real things.
- I mean, it, it, it keeps you at this kind of very childish level.
- Jerks are childish and they say stupid things.
- He tells his aide, you witnessed repellent, childish conduct.
- I would be like that's really weird and childish, but OK.
- is also a childish way of trying to change things
- Very immature, very childish way to react.
- Why I'm so mad or why I'm so childish sometimes.
- It's like that is such an that is such a childish way to look at the world.
- I see that people do this, but I can't be bothered with such childish antics, right?
- And I think that that is that is a childish way to view the world.
- It's just this whole thing is so inherently childish.
Examples
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I would be like that's really weird and childish, but OK.
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I mean, it's a it's a very childish, immature, mean thing to say.
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And, you know, some would say kind of like childish interests or childish things.
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We're still childish, but it's like, let me give you an example.
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And I think that that is that is a childish way to view the world.
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l mean, it was silly and childish, but it made me feel good about myself.
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Oh, Martin, I have a really ridiculous, somewhat childish request to make.
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In time, will we both put aside this childish hatred and live together in peace?
Fiction book (1993) -
Why I'm so mad or why I'm so childish sometimes.
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Kinda childish, don't you think?
Synonyms
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3.5
Behaving like a child in a way that shows little emotional growth
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4.2
Acting in an immature or childish way
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6.5
Acting like a young child in a silly or immature way
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9.1
Seeming childish and showing little maturity
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3.0
Acting or speaking like a baby and seeming childish
Acting like a child in a simple, not serious way
Antonyms
How Immature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Childish is made from child and the ending -ish, where child means a young person and -ish means 'like' or 'resembling'. So childish literally means 'like a child', which is why we use it for adults who behave in an immature way.