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		childishchild‧ish /ˈtʃaɪldɪʃ/ adjective    - He said he wouldn't go out with us if Jerry was going too - he's so childish!
 - I'd like you to explain your childish behaviour.
 - the childish joys of cotton candy and carousels
 - You know how childish he can be.
 
 - He made her feel cheap, disloyal, childish and socially inferior.
 - He said it with a childish wonder that touched her.
 - I know that sounds very childish and naive, but think about it.
 - I suppose it was childish of me, but I vowed to break Sir Thomas's, if I could.
 - I told Vivienne I thought it was stupid, just childish.
 - Lee looked out over his half-moon glasses almost like a childish madman.
 - Yet the stakes involved were not childish.
 
   stupid and childish► childish someone who is childish  annoys you by being unreasonable and unhelpful, or by complaining and being rude, as if they were a small child: · He said he wouldn't go out with us if Jerry was going too - he's so childish!· You know how childish he can be.· I'd like you to explain your childish behaviour. ► immature someone who is immature  behaves as if they were younger than they really are, so they are not as sensible or responsible as you expect them to be: · We were silly, immature teenagers, and we didn't know any better.· I was 19 when I went to college, but still very immature.· These kids are brilliant, but often socially immature. ► juvenile someone who is juvenile , especially a young adult, behaves in a very silly way like a child, when they should be more sensible: · Some of the boys tried to involve me in their juvenile pranks, but I wasn't interested. · You wouldn't think that college students could be so juvenile.   NOUN► things· It was time to put away childish things.· When I was a child, my speech, my outlook, and my thoughts were all with childish things.   1[usually before noun] relating to or typical of a child  OPP  adult:   a high childish laugh  her childish excitement2behaving in a silly way that makes you seem much younger than you really are – used to show disapproval  SYN  immature  OPP  mature:   Don’t be so childish!  I wish politicians would stop this childish name-calling. ► To describe someone who is as innocent, eager etc as a child, use childlike.—childishly adverb—childishness noun [uncountable]  |