infantile
/ˈɪnf(ə)ntʌɪl
/adjective
1Of or occurring among babies or very young children: infantile colic...
- There are plenty of bright shiny colors to keep baby's infantile brain firing on all ten billion synapses until the juice box kicks in.
- The crossover design is unlikely to provide valid evidence because infantile colic is an unstable condition, and the effects of dicyclomine may continue even after a washout period.
- There is no evidence that simethicone works for infantile colic.
1.1 derogatory Childish: infantile jokes...
- It's a terrible, infantile longing for really childish flavours.
- Better a cheap and infantile joke than no joke at all, or so I thought.
- These beauties spend their time exchanging infantile jokes suitable for the playground.
Synonyms
childish, babyish, immature, puerile, juvenile, adolescent;
silly, foolish, inane, fatuous, jejune
Derivatives
infantility
- His regard is for infantility, not infants.
- Civilized infantility refers to the fact that the adults in this society act like infants socially in the goals of their relationships.
- Infantility, indefinitely prolonged, is also the indefinite prolongation of (false) promise.
Origin
Late Middle English: from French, or from Latin infantilis, from infans, infant- (see infant).