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| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff*, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful, infantine |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | babyish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acting like an infant |
| Synonyms: | baby, childish, foolish, immature, infantile, juvenile, kid stuff, puerile, silly, sissy, spoiled, sissyish |
| Antonyms: | grown-up, mature |
| Main Entry: | childlike |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | innocent, naive |
| Synonyms: | artless, childish, credulous, guileless, immature, ingenuous, natural, simple, spontaneous, trusting, unaffected, unfeigned, trustful |
| Antonyms: | complicated, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | frivolous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trivial, silly |
| Synonyms: | barmy*, childish, dizzy*, empty-headed*, facetious, featherbrained*, flighty, flip, flippant, foolish, gay, giddy*, harebrained*, idiotic, idle, impractical, juvenile, light, minor, niggling*, paltry, peripheral, petty, playful, pointless, puerile, scatterbrained*, senseless, shallow, sportive, superficial, tongue-in-cheek*, unimportant, volatile, whimsical, ill-considered, light-minded, nonserious, not serious, unprofound |
| Antonyms: | grave, mature, sensible, serious, solemn, thoughtful, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | immature |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childish, crude, green*, imperfect, infantile, jejune, juvenile, kid, premature, puerile, raw, sophomoric, tender*, tenderfoot*, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, unripe, unseasonable, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untimely, youthful, half-grown, infantine, kidstuff, undergrown, unfledged, wet behind ears |
| Antonyms: | adult, developed, experienced, grown, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
| Synonyms: | baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, newborn, puerile, tender, unripe, weak, youthful, dawning, developing, infantine, nascent, unfledged |
| Antonyms: | adult, grown-up, mature |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kittenish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frisky, playful |
| Synonyms: | childish, coy, flirtatious, frolicsome, impish, jaunty, mischievous, sportive, coquettish, elvish, fun-loving |
| Antonyms: | lethargic, stiff, unplayful |
| Main Entry: | peevish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, testy |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, angry, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, carping, childish, churlish, complaining, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, fault-finding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-natured, mean, morose, obstinate, ogre, ornery, pertinacious, petulant, querulous, short-tempered, snappy, sulky, sullen, surly, touchy, ugly, waspish, caviling, crabbed, cussed, fretting, grousing, growling, out-of-sorts, splenetic, tetchy, waspy, whining |
| Antonyms: | friendly, happy, pleasant, accepting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | silly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | absurd, giddy, foolish |
| Synonyms: | asinine, balmy, brainless, childish, crazy, dizzy*, empty, empty-headed*, fatuous, featherbrained*, flighty, foolhardy, frivolous, harebrained*, idiotic, ignorant, illogical, immature, imprudent, inane, inappropriate, inconsistent, irrational, irresponsible, ludicrous, meaningless, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, puerile, ridiculous, senseless, simple, simpleminded, stupid, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, vacuous, witless, dippy, muddle-headed, nitwitted, sheepheaded |
| Antonyms: | mature, mundane, practical, sensible, serious, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unwise |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stupid, irresponsible |
| Synonyms: | childish, foolhardy, foolish, ill-advised, immature, impolitic, improvident, imprudent, inadvisable, inane, inappropriate, indiscreet, inept, injudicious, misguided, naive, rash, reckless, senseless, short-sighted, silly, thoughtless, undesirable, unfortunate, unintelligent, unsound, witless, ill-considered |
| Antonyms: | responsible, sagacious, thoughtful, wise |
| Main Entry: | well-preserved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-kept |
| Synonyms: | boyish, childish, fresh, girlish, tender, unspoiled, young, full of life |
| Main Entry: | young |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, blooming, blossoming, boyish, budding, callow, childish, childlike, crude, early, fledgling, fresh, girlish, green*, growing, ignorant, inexperienced, infant, inferior, junior, juvenile, little, modern, new, newborn, puerile, punk, raw, recent, tender, tenderfoot*, undeveloped, undisciplined, unfinished, unlearned, unripe, unseasoned, untried, unversed, vernal, youthful, boylike, burgeoning, developing, girllike, half-grown, newish, not aged, pubescent, unfledged, unpracticed |
| Antonyms: | mature, old, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | youthful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, immature |
| Synonyms: | active, adolescent, boyish, budding, buoyant, callow, childish, childlike, enthusiastic, fresh, girlish, green*, inexperienced, infant, juvenile, keen, puerile, tender, vernal, vigorous, young, full of life, pubescent, underage |
| Antonyms: | experienced, mature, old |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boyish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | youthful |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, childish, immature, innocent, juvenile, puerile, young, boylike |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature |
| Main Entry: | simplistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple |
| Synonyms: | childish, condensed, oversimplified, overly simplified |
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | callow, childish, childlike, green*, immature, impressionable, new, raw*, rookie*, sensitive, unripe, vernal, vulnerable, youthful, wet behind the ears |
| Antonyms: | experienced, mature, older |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | simple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, innocent |
| Synonyms: | amateur, artless, bald, basic, childish, direct, frank, green, guileless, honest, ingenuous, naive, naked, natural, plain, sincere, square, stark, trusting, unaffected, undeniable, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unvarnished, unartificial, unexperienced |
| Antonyms: | mature, older, sophisticated |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | credulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
credulous, childish, confiding, green, gullible, infatuous, overconfident, overcredulous, silly, simple, soft, stupid, superstitious
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