| Main Entry: | infant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baby |
Synonyms: |
babe, bairn, bambino, bantling, bundle, child, kid, little one, neonate, newborn, small child, suckling, toddler, tot |
Antonyms: |
adult |
| Main Entry: | infant/infantile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very young |
Synonyms: |
baby, babyish, callow, childish, childlike, dawning, developing, early, emergent, green*, growing, immature, infantine, initial, juvenile, kid, naive, nascent, newborn, puerile, tender, unfledged, unripe, weak, youthful |
Antonyms: |
adult, grown-up, mature |
| Concept: | Infant. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus., child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master., scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olivebranch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle., girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden.
-adjectives
infantine, infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow., in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens.
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Antonyms: |
veteran |
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| Main Entry: | babe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baby |
Synonyms: |
bairn, child, infant, little one, newborn, suckling |
Antonyms: |
adolescent, adult |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of children |
Synonyms: |
begats, breed, chicks, clutch, descendants, family, flock, hatch, infants, issue, litter, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed, young |
Antonyms: |
child |
| Main Entry: | callow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
Synonyms: |
crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune, jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, not dry behind ears, puerile, raw, sophomore, tenderfoot, unbaked, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
Antonyms: |
experienced, initiated, mature, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
Synonyms: |
adolescent, anklebiter, babe, baby, bairn, bambino, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, dickens, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, minor, mite, moppet, neonate, nestling, newborn, nipper, nursling, offspring, preteen, progeny, pubescent, shaver, small fry, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, tadpole, teen, teenager, teenybopper, toddler, tot, tyke, urchin, whippersnapper, young one, youngster, youth |
Antonyms: |
adult |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, new, blooming |
Synonyms: |
bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half-formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting, supple, tender, undecayed, undried, unfledged, ungrown, unripe, unseasoned, verdant, verduous, youthful |
Antonyms: |
old, withered |
| Main Entry: | initial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beginning, primary |
Synonyms: |
antecedent, basic, commencing, earliest, early, elementary, embryonic, first, foremost, fundamental, germinal, headmost, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, incipient, infant, initiative, initiatory, introductory, leading, nascent, opening, original, pioneer, virgin |
Antonyms: |
closing, final, last |
| Main Entry: | juvenile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childish |
Synonyms: |
adolescent, babyish, beardless, blooming, boyish, budding, callow, childlike, developing, formative, fresh, girlish, green, growing, immature, inexperienced, infant, infantile, jejune, junior, kid stuff, milk-fed, naive, pubescent, puerile, teenage, tender, undeveloped, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, unweaned, vernal, young, younger, youthful |
Antonyms: |
adult, grown-up, mature |