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childish - 18 thesaurus results
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Related Words
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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