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Definition of childish in English: childishadjective ˈtʃʌɪldɪʃˈtʃaɪldɪʃ 1Of, like, or appropriate to a child. Example sentencesExamples - It is one of the everyday hazards encountered by innocent children as they go about their childish play.
- There are platoons of child actors who don't come across as childish at all.
- Her statement that boys of fifteen should put aside childish things like ball games suggests a massive chip on her shoulder.
- She wears perfume on her thin, childish wrist and her eyes light up at the sight of big hooped earrings and jewelled necklaces.
- At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
- One of the guys is obviously the artist, and he is jovial, almost childish in his delight.
- I may be an adult but stick-watching seems like a fun childish game to play, especially when the stick has a name.
- As we pulled our car into her driveway, I discerned strange, childish voices in the garden.
- With a little love, devotion and childish enthusiasm even a silly story can inspire hope in the future of the nursery world.
- Several tracks convey the impression of a childish, playful imagination at work.
- Binoculars were lifted to the eyes of the big man and what he saw in the sky brought on an outpouring of childish excitement.
- A radical change of attitudes to ageing finds many of us determined to cling to childish things for as long as we jolly well like.
- That childish hope that the world is a good place, I retain, and I think that is childlike.
- I have a kind of childish way about me, I suppose, and that helps the film.
- When choosing a young tree, however, be sure to put a tactful check on childish enthusiasm.
- There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.
- It's not often that a circus like this comes to town, exceeding any childish expectations.
- I still have a childish thrill of the prospect of going to the fair especially when it is in the old market place of Devlzes
- Even at 35 you still get that same sense of childish excitement when you notice that it has been snowing overnight.
Synonyms childlike, youthful, young, young-looking, girlish, boyish, children's, child's, adolescent, teenaged, teenage archaic bread-and-butter - 1.1 Silly and immature.
Example sentencesExamples - He remained in her memory as a foolish and childish romance, a man less than perfect.
- Thank you for always listening to my childish secrets and stupid rattlings.
- I gave a small laugh and gazed at the ceiling, feeling monumentally stupid and childish.
- This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
- It is only to the bystander that the participants just look stupid and childish.
- He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish.
- If this all sounds a bit silly, over-the-top, or childish, none of it seemed out of place.
- To do otherwise would be as childish and immature as my behaviour in the first place.
- When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
- Alex followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst.
- I also banned her IP, because if she's going to be childish, she can do it someplace else.
- He told me a story of his childhood and I laughed drunkenly at its childish stupidity.
- Thirdly, there is no need to engage in childish name calling or immature ranting.
- She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish.
- John said he thought it was childish and silly, and that they had to be taken seriously now.
- These issues to me are far more important than childish name calling and are really what we should be spending our time reforming.
- I got angry with him and told him he was being childish and stupid.
- She says she ‘can be very childish and very silly’, but fails to give me any examples.
- She liked looking at stars and if she saw a shooting one she was sure to wish on it even if it was stupid or childish.
- We dismiss their worries about eating meat as silly and childish.
Synonyms immature, babyish, infantile, juvenile, puerile silly, inane, fatuous, jejune, foolish, stupid, irresponsible, naive
Derivatives noun ˈtʃʌɪldɪʃnəs Little did she know that Alex loved her childishness and jovialness. Example sentencesExamples - That may sound simple to the point of childishness.
- I think that childishness and honesty is what the play is all about.
- Apart from the childishness of this, I can see what their issue is.
- Her ignorance and her childishness were incredible.
Definition of childish in US English: childishadjectiveˈCHīldiSHˈtʃaɪldɪʃ 1Of, like, or appropriate to a child. Example sentencesExamples - As we pulled our car into her driveway, I discerned strange, childish voices in the garden.
- It is one of the everyday hazards encountered by innocent children as they go about their childish play.
- A radical change of attitudes to ageing finds many of us determined to cling to childish things for as long as we jolly well like.
- There was a certain puerile joy in her, a childish excitement shone in her eyes.
- Her statement that boys of fifteen should put aside childish things like ball games suggests a massive chip on her shoulder.
- One of the guys is obviously the artist, and he is jovial, almost childish in his delight.
- At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
- It's not often that a circus like this comes to town, exceeding any childish expectations.
- With a little love, devotion and childish enthusiasm even a silly story can inspire hope in the future of the nursery world.
- There are platoons of child actors who don't come across as childish at all.
- I may be an adult but stick-watching seems like a fun childish game to play, especially when the stick has a name.
- Binoculars were lifted to the eyes of the big man and what he saw in the sky brought on an outpouring of childish excitement.
- Even at 35 you still get that same sense of childish excitement when you notice that it has been snowing overnight.
- She wears perfume on her thin, childish wrist and her eyes light up at the sight of big hooped earrings and jewelled necklaces.
- When choosing a young tree, however, be sure to put a tactful check on childish enthusiasm.
- I have a kind of childish way about me, I suppose, and that helps the film.
- I still have a childish thrill of the prospect of going to the fair especially when it is in the old market place of Devlzes
- Several tracks convey the impression of a childish, playful imagination at work.
- That childish hope that the world is a good place, I retain, and I think that is childlike.
Synonyms childlike, youthful, young, young-looking, girlish, boyish, children's, child's, adolescent, teenaged, teenage - 1.1 Silly and immature.
Example sentencesExamples - She liked looking at stars and if she saw a shooting one she was sure to wish on it even if it was stupid or childish.
- These issues to me are far more important than childish name calling and are really what we should be spending our time reforming.
- If this all sounds a bit silly, over-the-top, or childish, none of it seemed out of place.
- I got angry with him and told him he was being childish and stupid.
- She took a deep breath and mentally berated herself for being so silly and childish.
- Alex followed behind him meekly, feeling dumb for her childish outburst.
- He told me a story of his childhood and I laughed drunkenly at its childish stupidity.
- John said he thought it was childish and silly, and that they had to be taken seriously now.
- He immediately snapped out of his reverie, feeling quite stupid and childish.
- To do otherwise would be as childish and immature as my behaviour in the first place.
- Thirdly, there is no need to engage in childish name calling or immature ranting.
- He remained in her memory as a foolish and childish romance, a man less than perfect.
- This whole project sounds like the most puerile, childish and willfully obnoxious cinematic venture in years.
- I gave a small laugh and gazed at the ceiling, feeling monumentally stupid and childish.
- It is only to the bystander that the participants just look stupid and childish.
- She says she ‘can be very childish and very silly’, but fails to give me any examples.
- When we see our politicians acting in such a puerile and childish manner is it any wonder the country is awash with apathy and cynicism?
- I also banned her IP, because if she's going to be childish, she can do it someplace else.
- Thank you for always listening to my childish secrets and stupid rattlings.
- We dismiss their worries about eating meat as silly and childish.
Synonyms immature, babyish, infantile, juvenile, puerile
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